Light scattering enhancement by double scattering technique for multijunction thin-film silicon solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 605-612

  Venkataraj, Selvaraj ^a   Wang, Juan ^a   Vayalakkara, Premachandran ^a   Aberle, Armin G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aluminum induced texture; glass texturization; light trapping; magnetron sputtering; thin film solar cells; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; TEXTURIZATION; THIN-FILM SI SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

ALUMINUM; AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; GLASS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES; WET ETCHING; ZINC OXIDE;

ALUMINUM COATINGS;

EID: 84875620805     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2245723     Document Type: Article

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