Light Coupling and Trapping in Ultrathin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells Using Dielectric Scattering Patterns

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 9603-9613

  Van Lare, Claire ^a   Yin, Guanchao ^b   Polman, Albert ^a   Schmid, Martina ^b,c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

chalcopyrite solar cells; dielectric scattering patterns; Jsc enhancement; light trapping; substrate conformal imprint lithography

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR ABSORBERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHALCOPYRITE SOLAR CELLS; DIELECTRIC SCATTERING; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; IMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84945952046     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04091     Document Type: Article

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