Title :
CLEO®/Europe — IQEC 2013 quasi-bidimensional disordered structures for light trapping in thin-film solar cells
Author :
Burresi, Matteo ; Pratesi, F. ; Vynck, Kevin ; Prasciolu, M. ; Tormen, M. ; Wiersma, Diederik S.
Author_Institution :
Eur. Lab. for Non-linear Spectrosc. (LENS), Florence, Italy
Abstract :
The quest for efficient harvesting of solar radiation is one of the major areas of research in the renewable energy field. Through different photonic architectures it is possible to augment the optical absorption by trapping light within thin and ultra-thin films, the latter being desirable to decrease costs and efficiently extract the photogenerated charge carriers. Engineering the absorbing material at the nanoscale indeed leads to interferences that can significantly increase light absorption [1].
Keywords :
energy harvesting; light absorption; solar cells; solar radiation; thin films; CLEO-Europe; IQEC 2013; absorbing material; efficient harvesting; light trapping; optical absorption; photogenerated charge carriers; photonic architectures; quasibidimensional disordered structures; renewable energy field; solar radiation; thin film solar cells; Europe;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0593-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801432