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Integration of a 2D Periodic Nanopattern Into Thin Film Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Nanoimprint Lithography
Islam Abdo, Christos Trompoukis, Jan Deckers +6
The integration of two-dimensional (2D) periodic nanopattern defined by nanoimprint lithography and dry etching into aluminum induced crystallization (AIC) based polycrystalline si…
Influence of Periodic Surface Nanopatterning Profiles on Series Resistance in Thin-Film Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells
Islam Abdo, Christos Trompoukis, Loic Tous +4
In the frame of the development of thin crystalline silicon solar cell technologies, surface nanopatterning of silicon is gaining importance. Its impact on the material quality is,…
Micrometer-Thin Crystalline-Silicon Solar Cells Integrating Numerically Optimized 2-D Photonic Crystals
V. Depauw, X. Meng, O. El Daif +7
A 2-D photonic crystal was integrated experimentally into a thin-film crystalline-silicon solar cell of 1-μm thickness, after numerical optimization maximizing light absorption in…
Broadband absorption enhancement in ultra-thin crystalline Si solar cells by incorporating metallic and dielectric nanostructures in the back reflector
Samart Jain, Valerie Depauw, Vladimir D. Miljkovic +5
We propose a back-reflecting scheme in order to enhance the maximum achievable current in one micron thick crystalline silicon solar cells. We perform 3-dimensional numerical inves…
Inverted random nanopyramids patterning for crystalline silicon photovoltaics
Ounsi El Daif, Christos Trompoukis, Bjoern Niesen +4
We demonstrate a nanopatterning technique for silicon photovoltaics, which optically outperforms conventional micron-scale random pyramids, while decreasing by a factor of ten the…
Photonic assisted light trapping integrated in ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cells by nanoimprint lithography
Christos Trompoukis, Ounsi El Daif, Valérie Depauw +2
We report on the fabrication of two-dimensional periodic photonic nanostructures by nanoimprint lithography and dry etching, and their integration into a 1-μm-thin mono-crystalline…