The effect of mode excitations on the absorption enhancement for silicon thin film solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 23, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Albert ^a   Zhong, Yan Kai ^a   Fu, Ssu Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; DIELECTRIC SPACERS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL GRATINGS; PERIODIC GRATINGS; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELL STRUCTURES; STRONG ABSORPTIONS; TEXTURED SURFACE;

GEOMETRY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84891472252     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4851817     Document Type: Article

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