Light trapping in pyramidally textured crystalline silicon solar cells using back-side diffractive gratings

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 747-753

  Rothemund, Ralph ^a   Umundum, Thomas ^a   Meinhardt, Gerald ^b   Hingerl, Kurt ^a   Fromherz, Thomas ^a   Jantsch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b Blue Chip Energy GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

crystalline silicon solar cells; diffraction; gratings; light trapping; pyramidal texture; simulation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE EFFICIENCIES; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PYRAMIDAL TEXTURES; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

DIFFRACTION; EFFICIENCY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84878167070     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2192     Document Type: Article

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