Investigation on antireflection coatings for Al:ZnO in silicon thin-film solar cells

Optik

Volumn 124, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3392-3395

  Lu, Yuehui ^a   Zhang, Xianpeng ^a   Huang, Jinhua ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Wei, Tiefeng ^a   Lan, Pinjun ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Xu, Hua ^b   Song, Weijie ^a,b  

^a NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Al doped ZnO; Antireflection coatings; Photovoltaic transmittance; Propagation matrix method; Silicon thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

AL-DOPED ZNO; AMORPHOUS SILICON LAYERS; INTERFACIAL REFLECTIONS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES(OLEDS); PHOTOVOLTAIC; PROPAGATION MATRIX METHOD; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; COATINGS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

EID: 84881377164     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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