An improved optical simulation method for crystalline silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2677-2680

  Xu, Guanchao ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Zhang, Kangping ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Fu, Shaoyong ^a   Feng, Zhiqiang ^a   Verlinden, Pierre ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Free carrier absorption; Light trapping; Optical simulation; Phong's model; Texture

Indexed keywords

REFLECTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TEXTURES;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NON-SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE SIMULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84896471994     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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