Enhanced light absorption in thin-film solar cells with light propagation direction conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 103, 2013, Pages A539-A547

  Suemune, Ikuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR CELLS;

ENHANCED LIGHT ABSORPTIONS; FIGURE OF MERITS; GRATING COUPLERS; GRATING COUPLING; LIGHT ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; PHASE MATCHING CONDITIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 84878603224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.00A539     Document Type: Article

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