Nanoimprint texturing of transparent flexible substrates for improved light management in thin-film solar cells

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 215-219

  Wilken, Karen ^a   Paetzold, Ulrich W ^a   Meier, Matthias ^a   Prager, Nicole ^b   Fahland, Matthias ^b   Finger, Friedhelm ^a   Smirnov, Vladimir ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flexible substrates; Light trapping; Solar cells; Texturing; Thin films

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDE MINERALS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; TEXTURING; THIN FILMS; ZINC OXIDE;

DEPOSITION TEMPERATURES; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; FLEXIBLE THIN FILMS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOIMPRINT TECHNOLOGY; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; SCATTERING PROPERTY; TRANSPARENT POLYMER FILMS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84928273748     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201510040     Document Type: Article

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