Optimization-based design of surface textures for thin-film Si solar cells

We numerically investigate the light-absorption behavior of thin-film silicon for normal-incident light, using surface textures to enhance absorption. We consider a variety of texture designs, such as simple periodic gratings and commercial random textures, and examine arbitrary irregular periodic t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sheng, Xing, Johnson, Steven G., Michel, Jurgen, Kimerling, Lionel C.
Other Authors: MIT Materials Research Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Optical Society of America 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64712
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-6189