Analytical solution for haze values of aluminium-induced texture (AIT) glass superstrates for a-Si:H solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sahraei, Nasim ^a   Forberich, Karen ^a,b   Venkataraj, Selvaraj ^a   Aberle, Armin G ^a   Peters, Marius ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AUTOCORRELATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SCATTERING; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SURFACES; TEXTURES;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); AUTOCORRELATION LENGTH; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY PARAMETERS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

GLASS;

EID: 84892665894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.000A53     Document Type: Article

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