Optimized Scattering Power Spectral Density of Photovoltaic Light-Trapping Patterns

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 822-831

  Van Lare, M Claire ^a   Polman, Albert ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dielectrics; light trapping; power spectral density; scattering; thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY BANDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SCATTERING; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); SPATIAL FREQUENCY; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM SI SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84937053990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500449v     Document Type: Article

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