Photon management with luminescent materials and photonic structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9140, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Goldschmidt, J C ^a   Fischer, S ^a   Fröhlich, Benjamin ^a   Gutmann, J ^a   Herter, B ^a   Hofmann, C ^a   Loffler J ^a   Van Veggel, Frank C J M ^b   Wolf, S ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grating; Photon Management; Photonic Structures; Photovoltaics; Silicon; Solar Cells; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

GRATING; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; UP-CONVERSION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84902278972     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2052507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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