Micrometer-thin crystalline-silicon solar cells integrating numerically optimized 2-d photonic crystals

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 215-223

  Depauw, Valerie ^a   Meng, Xianqin ^b,c   El Daif, Ounsi ^a   Gomard, Guillaume ^b,d   Lalouat, Loic ^b,e,f   Drouard, Emmanuel ^b,e   Trompoukis, Christos ^a,g   Fave, Alain ^b,f   Seassal, Christian ^b,e   Gordon, Ivan ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation; heterojunction; laser holographic lithography; light trapping; nanophotonics; photonic crystals; photovoltaic cells; thin film crystalline silicon

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LASER HOLOGRAPHIC LITHOGRAPHY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84891559923     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2286521     Document Type: Article

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