Photonic nanostructures for advanced light trapping in thin crystalline silicon solar cells

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 140-155

  Trompoukis, Christos ^a,b   Abdo, Islam ^a   Cariou, Romain ^c   Cosme, Ismael ^c   Chen, Wanghua ^c   Deparis, Olivier ^d   Dmitriev, Alexandre ^e   Drouard, Emmanuel ^f   Foldyna, Martin ^c   Garcia Caurel, Enric ^c   Gordon, Ivan ^a   Heidari, Babak ^g   Herman, Aline ^d   Lalouat, Loic ^f   Lee, Ki Dong ^g   Liu, Jia ^f   Lodewijks, Kristof ^e   Mandorlo, Fabien ^f   Massiot, Inès ^e   Mayer, Alexandre ^d   Mijkovic, Vladimir ^e   Muller, Jerome ^d   Orobtchouk, Regis ^f   Poulain, Gilles ^h   Prod'Homme, Patricia ^h   Roca I Cabarrocas, Pere ^a   Seassal, Christian ^f   Poortmans, Jef ^a,b   Mertens, Robert ^a   El Daif, Ounsi ^a   Depauw, Valérie ^a   more..

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^g Box 580   (Sweden)

^h TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Photonic crystals; Photonic nanostructures; Silicon; Solar cells; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CHARGE CARRIERS; DRY ETCHING; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLS; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; WET ETCHING;

CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; LIGHT INCIDENCE ANGLES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; NANO-PATTERNED SURFACES; OPTICAL SIMULATION; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84920792412     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201431180     Document Type: Article

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