Enhanced absorption of thin-film photovoltaic cells using an optical cavity

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Weinstein, Lee A ^a   Hsu, Wei Chun ^a   Yerci, Selçuk ^a,b   Boriskina, Svetlana V ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

light trapping; photovoltaics; ray tracing

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; RAY TRACING; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEXTURES; THIN FILMS;

ENHANCED ABSORPTION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; SURFACE-TEXTURING; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THIN FILM SILICON; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84928795956     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/17/5/055901     Document Type: Article

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