Natural evolution inspired design of light trapping structure in thin film organic solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8823, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Chen ^a   Yu, Shuangcheng ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Nanophotonics; Thin film organic solar cell; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRAPPING STRUCTURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MULTI-LAYER SYSTEM; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TOPOLOGICAL VARIATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DESIGN; FILM PREPARATION; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTIMIZATION; SCATTERING; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; TOPOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 84886879681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2024775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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