Optimal design of ultra-broadband, omnidirectional, and polarization-insensitive amorphous silicon solar cells with a core-shell nanograting structure

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1077-1086

  Yang, L ^a   Mo, L ^a,d   Okuno, Y ^b   He, S ^a,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

absorption; core shell nanograting; plasmonics; short circuit current density; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; CARRIER COLLECTION; NANO-GRATING STRUCTURES; NANOGRATING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

ABSORPTION; AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84881254308     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2206     Document Type: Article

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