Analysis of prismatic bioinspired texturing of the surface of a silicon solar cell for enhanced light-coupling efficiency

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Chiadini, Francesco ^a   Fiumara, Vincenzo ^b   Scaglione, Antonio ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinspiration; Geometrical optics; Solar cells; Surface texturing

Indexed keywords

ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; BIO-INSPIRATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; EXPOSED SURFACES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; LIGHT COUPLINGS; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; SURFACE-TEXTURING;

EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84897585503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.3.034599     Document Type: Article

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