Bioinspired pit texturing of silicon solar cell surfaces

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chiadini, Francesco ^a   Fiumara, Vincenzo ^b   Scaglione, Antonio ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinspiration; ray tracing; solar cells; surface texturing

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRATION; EXPOSED SURFACES; LIGHT COUPLINGS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MULTI FREQUENCY; SILICON SURFACES; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SURFACE-TEXTURING;

CELL MEMBRANES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; RAY TRACING; SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84888140994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.3.034596     Document Type: Article

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