Combining randomly textured surfaces and photonic crystals for the photon management in thin film microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 103, 2013, Pages A450-A459

  Wiesendanger, S ^a   Zilk, M ^a   Pertsch, T ^a   Rockstuhl, C ^a   Lederer, F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; FABRICATION CONSTRAINTS; GEOMETRICAL DESIGNS; OPTICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; TEXTURED SURFACE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84878559758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A450     Document Type: Article

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