Light trapping and optical losses in microcrystalline silicon pin solar cells deposited on surface-textured glass/ZnO substrates

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Springer, J ^a,b   Rech, B ^a   Reetz, W ^a   Muller J ^a   Vanecek, M ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Microcrystalline silicon; Optical losses; Optical modeling; Rough silver back reflector; Texture etched zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CURRENT DENSITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; POLYETHYLENES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON; TEXTURES; THIN FILMS;

MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL MODELING; ROUGH SILVER BACK REFLECTOR; TEXTURE-ETCHING ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 9444265342     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2004.02.020     Document Type: Article

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