Optical modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells by combination of the transfer-matrix method and the raytracer algorithm

Optical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Walder, Cordula ^a   Lacombe, Jürgen ^a   Von Maydell, Karsten ^a   Agert, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION CAPACITY; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; SEPARATING FUNCTIONS; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; RAYTRACER; SCATTERING MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SCATTERING;

TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

EID: 84884719587     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.51.7.073801     Document Type: Article

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