Quantifying the optical losses in back-contact solar cells

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 115-123

  McIntosh, K R ^a   Kho, T C ^b   Fong, K C ^b   Baker Finch, S C ^a,b   Wan, Y ^b   Zin, N ^b   Franklin, E T ^b   Wang, D ^b   Abbott, M D ^a   Grant, N E ^b   Wang, E ^b   Stocks, M ^b   Blakers, A W ^b  

^a PV Lighthouse   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

CELL STRUCTURE; DOUBLE LAYER ANTI-REFLECTION COATINGS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; GENERATION CURRENT; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOSS MECHANISMS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84912134624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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