Light-scattering effectiveness of two-dimensional disordered surface textures in thin-film silicon solar cells

Applied Optics

Volumn , Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2847-2852

  Yeh, Pinghui S ^a   Chen, Chien Wei ^a   Yang, Bing Ru ^a   Hong, Lu Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMORPHOUS SILICON; HYDROGENATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROCRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE SCATTERING; TEXTURES; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; DISORDERED SURFACES; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); HYDROGENATED MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84942369711     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.53.002847     Document Type: Article

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