Light management in hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Liu, Bofei ^a   Bai, Lisha ^a   Zhang, Xiaodan ^a   Zhang, Dekun ^a   Wei, Changchun ^a   Sun, Jian ^a   Huang, Qian ^a   Chen, Xinliang ^a   Ni, Jian ^a   Wang, Guangcai ^a   Zhao, Ying ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FDTD simulations; Hydrogenated amorphous silicon germanium solar cell; Light absorption enhancement; Light trapping; Surface morphology analysis

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COATINGS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; HYDROGENATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILICON ALLOYS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; ZINC OXIDE;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; AMORPHOUS SILICON GERMANIUM; FDTD SIMULATIONS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84901640197     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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