Structural Optimization of Photonic Crystals for Enhancing Optical Absorption of Thin Film Silicon Solar Cell Structures

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kawamoto, Yosuke ^a   Tanaka, Yoshinori ^a   Ishizaki, Kenji ^a   De Zoysa, Menaka ^a   Asano, Takashi ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

SI SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908257203     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2302800     Document Type: Article

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