Photonic crystals and optical mode engineering for thin film photovoltaics

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 103, 2013, Pages A515-A527

  Gomard, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Peretti, Romain ^a,b   Drouard, Emmanuel ^a,b   Meng, Xianqin ^a,b,c   Seassal, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM OPTICS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

2-D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; COUPLED MODE THEORY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SPECIFIC PROPERTIES; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84878560240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A515     Document Type: Article

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