Understanding Light Harvesting in Radial Junction Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
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Understanding Light Harvesting in Radial Junction Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
The radial junction (RJ) architecture has proven beneficial for the design of a new generation of high performance thin film photovoltaics. We herein carry out a comprehensive modeling of the light in-coupling, propagation and absorption profile within RJ thin film cells based on an accurate set of material properties extracted from spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements. This has enabled us t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep04357