Light trapping in ultrathin monocrystalline silicon solar cells

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1401-1406

  Yu, Ki Jun ^a   Gao, Li ^b   Park, Jae Suk ^a   Lee, Yu Ri ^a   Corcoran, Christopher J ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^a   Chanda, Debashis ^c   Rogers, John A ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

absorption; flexible; light trapping; solar cells; ultra thin silicon

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FLEXIBLE; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL MODELING; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRATHIN SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84887472349     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201300542     Document Type: Article

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