The two approaches of surface-texture optimization in thin-film silicon solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1156-1162

  Krc, Janez ^a   Sever, Martin ^a   Topic, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Light trapping; optical modeling; surface textures; thin film silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL MODELING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS; SURFACE TEXTURES; SYSTEMATIC OPTIMIZATION; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 84884671775     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2278665     Document Type: Article

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