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Optical Losses in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells due to Back Reflectors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
We have used a new numerical model and here present initial results on how texturing and backreflectors affect the maximum achievable short-circuit current densities in amorphous silicon solar cells.
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