Cloaked contact grids on solar cells by coordinate transformations: Designs and prototypes

Optica

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 850-853

  Schumann, Martin F ^a   Wiesendanger, Samuel ^b   Goldschmidt, Jan Christoph ^c   Bläsi, Benedikt ^c   Bittkau, Karsten ^d   Paetzold, Ulrich W ^d   Sprafke, Alexander ^e   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^e,f   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a   Wegener, Martin ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MICROSTRUCTURE OF MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS IMWS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Micro optics; Microstructure fabrication; Solar energy

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ENERGY CONVERSION; METAMATERIALS; MICROOPTICS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; DIRECT LASER WRITING; FREE-FORM SURFACE; INCIDENCE ANGLES; MICROSTRUCTURE FABRICATION; POLYMER STRUCTURE; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SHADOWING EFFECTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84957550021     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.000850     Document Type: Letter

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