• DocumentCode
    2300277
  • Title

    Inverse electromagnetic design for subwavelength light trapping in solar cells

  • Author

    Ganapati, Vidya ; Miller, Owen D. ; Yablonovitch, Eli

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    23-27 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    191
  • Lastpage
    192
  • Abstract
    In the subwavelength regime, the optimal surface texture for light trapping in solar cells remains to be found. We use computational inverse electromagnetic design to find the optimal nanoscale surface texture.
  • Keywords
    solar cells; computational inverse electromagnetic design; optimal nanoscale surface texture; solar cells; subwavelength light trapping; Absorption; Charge carrier processes; Electromagnetics; Materials; Optical surface waves; Photovoltaic cells; Surface texture;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Burlingame, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0731-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358555
  • Filename
    6358555