Light trapping and thermodynamic processes in photovoltaics

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2012-12-01

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Chen, Gang
Boriskina, Svetlana V.
Branham, Matthew
Yerci, Selçuk

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This talk will first discuss experimental progress on light-trapping in crystalline silicon thin films with nanostructured surfaces and fabrication of solar cells on such thin films, followed by discussion of thermodynamic processes in photovoltaics.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79408

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Laser Science 2012

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G. Chen, S. V. Boriskina, M. Branham, and S. Yerci, “Light trapping and thermodynamic processes in photovoltaics,” presented at the Laser Science 2012, Rochester, New York United States, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84893123147&origin=inward.