Photon management modeling and beyond for photovoltaics

Optics Communications

Volumn 314, Issue , 2014, Pages 66-70

  Bermel, Peter ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Full wave optics; Photonics; Photovoltaics; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; FULL WAVES; PERIODIC GRATINGS; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SHOCKLEY-QUEISSER LIMITS;

OPTICS; PHOTONICS; SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 84890116596     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2013.10.040     Document Type: Article

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