Thin-film silicon solar cells applying optically decoupled back reflectors

Materials Science and Engineering: B

Volumn 178, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 645-650

  Moulin, E ^a   Paetzold, U W ^a   Bittkau, K ^a   Ermes, M ^a   Ding, L ^b   Fanni, L ^b   Nicolay, S ^b   Kirchhoff, J ^a   Weigand, D ^a   Bauer, A ^a   Lambertz, A ^a   Ballif, C ^b   Carius, R ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Back reflector; Light trapping; Plasmonic; Thin film solar cell; White paint

Indexed keywords

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MICROMETERS; PAINT; PLASMONICS; REFLECTION; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS; TOPOGRAPHY; ZINC OXIDE;

BACK REFLECTORS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PLASMONICS; REFLECTOR DESIGN; SILICON LAYER; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; WHITE PAINTS; ΜC-SI; ΜC-SI:H SOLAR CELLS;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84876410368     PISSN: 09215107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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