Mechanisms of Enhanced Optical Absorption for Ultrathin Silicon Solar Microcells with an Integrated Nanostructured Backside Reflector

Journal Article · Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/am400408g· OSTI ID:1387221

Corcoran, Christopher J. ^[1]; Kang, Somi ^[2]; Li, Lanfang ^[2]; Guo, Xiaoying ^[3]; Chanda, Debashis ^[4]; Nuzzo, Ralph G. ^[3]

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1. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
3. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 505 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
4. NanoScience Technology Center and College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central Florida, 12424 Research Parkway Suite 400, Orlando, Florida 32826, United States

• Research Organization: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE SC Office of Basic Energy Sciences (SC-22)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0001293
• OSTI ID: 1387221
• Journal Information: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 5; ISSN 1944-8244
• Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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