Photonic nanostructures for advanced light trapping in thin crystalline silicon solar cells

Micrometer-Thin Crystalline-Silicon Solar Cells Integrating Numerically Optimized 2-D Photonic Crystals

(2014) Valerie Depauw et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Efficient light trapping in low aspect-ratio honeycomb nanobowl surface texturing for crystalline silicon solar cell applications

(2013) Pingqi Gao et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Al2O3/TiO2 nano-pattern antireflection coating with ultralow surface recombination

(2013) P. Spinelli et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Modeling combined coherent and incoherent scattering structures for light trapping in solar cells

(2013) Aimi Abass et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Realization of high performance silicon nanowire based solar cells with large size

(2013) X X Lin et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Photonic crystals and optical mode engineering for thin film photovoltaics

(2013) Guillaume Gomard et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

A novel silicon nanostructure with effective light trapping for polycrystalline silicon thin film solar cells by means of metal-assisted wet chemical etching

(2013) Chaowei Xue et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Absorption control in pseudodisordered photonic-crystal thin films

(2013) Romain Peretti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Aluminum-induced crystallization for thin-film polycrystalline silicon solar cells: Achievements and perspective

(2013) Dries Van Gestel et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells: Status and perspectives

(2013) C. Becker et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Advanced microhole arrays for light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells

(2013) Daniel Lockau et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Deterministic quasi-random nanostructures for photon control

(2013) Emiliano R. Martins et al.   Nature Communications

Mutually synchronized bottom-up multi-nanocontact spin–torque oscillators

(2013) S. Sani et al.   Nature Communications

Photonic assisted light trapping integrated in ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cells by nanoimprint lithography

(2012) Christos Trompoukis et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Partially disordered photonic-crystal thin films for enhanced and robust photovoltaics

(2012) Ardavan Oskooi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Solar energy trapping with modulated silicon nanowire photonic crystals

(2012) Guillaume Demésy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Influence of the pattern shape on the efficiency of front-side periodically patterned ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cells

(2012) Aline Herman et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Origination of nano- and microstructures on large areas by interference lithography

(2012) Andreas J. Wolf et al.   MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Absorption Enhancement in Ultrathin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Antireflection and Light-Trapping Nanocone Gratings

(2012) Ken Xingze Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Efficient Light Trapping in Inverted Nanopyramid Thin Crystalline Silicon Membranes for Solar Cell Applications

(2012) Anastassios Mavrokefalos et al.   NANO LETTERS

An 18.2%-efficient black-silicon solar cell achieved through control of carrier recombination in nanostructures

(2012) Jihun Oh et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Estimation of the convergence order of rigorous coupled-wave analysis for binary gratings in optical critical dimension metrology

(2012) Shiyuan Liu   OPTICAL ENGINEERING

Design, fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal assisted thin film monocrystalline-silicon solar cells

(2012) Xianqin Meng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nanophotonic light trapping in 3-dimensional thin-film silicon architectures

(2012) Daniel Lockau et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Combined front and back diffraction gratings for broad band light trapping in thin film solar cell

(2012) Xianqin Meng et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Photonic light-trapping versus Lambertian limits in thin film silicon solar cells with 1D and 2D periodic patterns

(2012) Angelo Bozzola et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Dual-interface gratings for broadband absorption enhancement in thin-film solar cells

(2012) Aimi Abass et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Crystalline thin-foil silicon solar cells: where crystalline quality meets thin-film processing

(2012) Frederic Dross et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Simple power-loss analysis method for high-efficiency Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC) silicon solar cells

(2012) Pierre J. Verlinden et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Front side plasmonic effect on thin silicon epitaxial solar cells

(2012) Ounsi El Daif et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Light harvesting by planar photonic crystals in solar cells: the case of amorphous silicon

(2012) Guillaume Gomard et al.   Journal of Optics

Broadband omnidirectional antireflection coating based on subwavelength surface Mie resonators

(2012) P. Spinelli et al.   Nature Communications

Plasmonic Efficiency Enhancement of High Performance Organic Solar Cells with a Nanostructured Rear Electrode

(2012) Bjoern Niesen et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Comparison of periodic light-trapping structures in thin crystalline silicon solar cells

(2011) Jo Gjessing et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Minimizing light reflection from dielectric textured surfaces

(2011) Alexei Deinega et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Light trapping by backside diffraction gratings in silicon solar cells revisited

(2011) Markus Wellenzohn et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Effect of aperiodicity on the broadband reflection of silicon nanorod structures for photovoltaics

(2011) Chenxi Lin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optimization of 1D photonic crystals to minimize the reflectance of silicon solar cells

(2011) S. Domínguez et al.   Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications

Upper limits to absorption enhancement in thick solar cells using diffraction gratings

(2011) A. Mellor et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

19%-efficient and 43 µm-thick crystalline Si solar cell from layer transfer using porous silicon

(2011) Jan Hendrik Petermann et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Study of the effects of different fractions of large grains of μc-Si:H:F films on the infrared absorption on thin film solar cells

(2011) M. Moreno et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Two-dimensional photonic crystal for absorption enhancement in hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin film solar cells

(2010) Guillaume Gomard et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Anti-reflecting and photonic nanostructures

(2010) S. Chattopadhyay et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

High volume nanoimprint lithography on III/V substrates: Imprint fidelity and stamp lifetime

(2010) Torbjörn Eriksson et al.   MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Toward the Lambertian Limit of Light Trapping in Thin Nanostructured Silicon Solar Cells

(2010) Sang Eon Han et al.   NANO LETTERS

Light trapping regimes in thin-film silicon solar cells with a photonic pattern

(2010) Simone Zanotto et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Absorbing one-dimensional planar photonic crystal for amorphous silicon solar cell

(2010) Ounsi El Daif et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Epitaxy-free monocrystalline silicon thin film: first steps beyond proof-of-concept solar cells

(2010) V. Depauw et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Absorbing photonic crystals for silicon thin-film solar cells: Design, fabrication and experimental investigation

(2010) Xianqin Meng et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Interference lithography: a powerful tool for fabricating periodic structures

(2009) C. Lu et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Optimization of random diffraction gratings in thin-film solar cells using genetic algorithms

(2008) A LIN et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS