Modeling combined coherent and incoherent scattering structures for light trapping in solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Abass, Aimi ^a   Trompoukis, Christos ^b,c   Leyre, Sven ^c,d   Burgelman, Marc ^a   Maes, Bjorn ^a,e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Catholic University College   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CURRENT STRUCTURE; INCOHERENT LIGHT; PARTIALLY COHERENT; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84880835060     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4813102     Document Type: Article

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