Recent progress of high efficiency Si thin-film solar cells in large area

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 973-988

  You, Dong Joo ^a   Kim, Sun Ho ^a   Lee, Hyun ^a   Chung, Jin Won ^a   Hwang, Sun Tae ^a   Heo, Youn Ho ^a   Lee, Sungeun ^a   Lee, Heon Min ^a  

^a LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

large area solar module; light trapping; Si thin film solar cell; TCO smoothing; triple junction

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MICROCRYSTALS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEMPERATURE; THIN FILMS;

ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOW TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; SOLAR MODULE; TCO SMOOTHING; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84936890077     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2510     Document Type: Article

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