See-through amorphous silicon solar cells with selectively transparent and conducting photonic crystal back reflectors for building integrated photovoltaics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 22, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Yang ^a   O'Brien, Paul G ^a   Ozin, Geoffrey A ^a   Kherani, Nazir P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK REFLECTORS; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); IN-BUILDINGS; ITO FILMS; REAR CONTACTS; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; SOLAR IRRADIANCES;

LIGHTING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFLECTION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84888601902     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4833542     Document Type: Article

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