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Light trapping in solar cells: can periodic beat random?

Battaglia et al., 2012

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Battaglia C
Hsu C
Soderstrom K
Escarré J
Haug F
Charriere M
Boccard M
Despeisse M
Alexander D
Cantoni M
Cui Y
Ballif C
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ACS nano

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Theory predicts that periodic photonic nanostructures should outperform their random counterparts in trapping light in solar cells. However, the current certified world-record conversion efficiency for amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells, which strongly rely on light …
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