Micro-textures for efficient light trapping and improved electrical performance in thin-film nanocrystalline silicon solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Tan, Hairen ^a   Psomadaki, Efthymia ^a   Isabella, Olindo ^a   Fischer, Marinus ^a   Babal, Pavel ^a   Vasudevan, Ravi ^a   Zeman, Miro ^a   Smets, Arno H M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL THICKNESS; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; INITIAL EFFICIENCY; LARGE OPENINGS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MICRO TEXTURE; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON (NC-SI:H); TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; TEXTURES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84887035005     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4826639     Document Type: Article

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