Enhancement of broadband optical absorption in photovoltaic devices by band-edge effect of photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 20111-20118

  Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Kawamoto, Yosuke ^a   Fujita, Masayuki ^a,b   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTHS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC LAYERS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SUPER-LATTICE STRUCTURES; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84883226211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.020111     Document Type: Article

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