Ultrabroadband and wide-angle hybrid antireflection coatings with nanostructures

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 962-967

  Perl, Emmett E ^a   Lin, Chieh Ting ^a   McMahon, William E ^b   Friedman, Daniel J ^b   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; III V semiconductor materials; optical films; photovoltaic cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; BIOMIMETICS; OPTICAL FILMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

ANTI-REFLECTION LAYERS; CELL EFFICIENCY; DETAILED BALANCE; EFFICIENCY GAIN; HYBRID APPROACH; INDIUM GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE; MULTIJUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; NANO-STRUCTURED;

COATINGS;

EID: 84899923847     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2304359     Document Type: Article

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