Plasmonic back contacts with non-ordered Ag nanostructures for light trapping in thin-film silicon solar cells

Materials Science and Engineering: B

Volumn 178, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 630-634

  Paetzold, Ulrich W ^a   Meier, Matthias ^a   Moulin, Etienne ^a   Smirnov, Vladimir ^a   Pieters, Bart E ^a   Rau, Uwe ^a   Carius, Reinhard ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Nanostructures; Plasmonic; Thin film solar cell

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PLASMONICS; REFLECTION; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

BACK CONTACT; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; ORDERED NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84876418957     PISSN: 09215107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mseb.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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