How to assess light trapping structures versus a Lambertian Scatterer for solar cells?

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Schuster, Christian S ^a   Bozzola, Angelo ^b   Andreani, Lucio C ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING;

ELECTROOPTIC EFFECTS; FABRICATION METHOD; FIGURE OF MERITS; LIGHT TRAPPING STRUCTURES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; TARGET VALUES; THEORETICAL STRUCTURE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896344773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.00A542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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