Multiple-pass thin-film silicon solar cell
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 25 (11), 647-648
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1655344
Abstract
A technique is described by which light entering a thin film is ``trapped'' in the sense of having to traverse the film a number of times. It is shown that the use of this technique in silicon provides a solar cell with good carrier collection efficiencies even with Si only ∼2 μm thick and with ∼10‐nsec lifetime.Keywords
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