Tuning the plasmonic absorption of metal reflectors by zinc oxide nano particles: Application in thin film solar cells

Nano Energy

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 167-172

  Palanchoke, Ujwol ^a,b   Kurz, Henning ^b   Noriega, Rodrigo ^c   Arabi, Sahar ^a   Jovanov, Vladislav ^a   Magnus, Philipp ^b   Aftab, Hasan ^a   Salleo, Alberto ^c   Stiebig, Helmut ^b   Knipp, Dietmar ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Malibu GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon solar cells; Light trapping; Nano particles; Plasmonic losses

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PLASMONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; ZINC OXIDE;

BACK CONTACT; DIELECTRIC/METAL INTERFACE; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; REFLECTED LIGHT; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84899712179     PISSN: 22112855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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