Focus Issue: Thin-Film Photovoltaic Materials and Devices

Bernard Kippelen

Opt. Express 18(S3), A487-A488 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Grid-connected polymer solar panels: initial considerations of cost, lifetime, and practicality

Andrew J. Medford, Mathilde R. Lilliedal, Mikkel Jørgensen, Dennis Aarø, Heinz Pakalski, Jan Fyenbo, and Frederik C. Krebs

Opt. Express 18(S3), A272-A285 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Method to Protect Charge Recombination in the Back-Contact Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Beomjin Yoo, Kang-Jin Kim, Doh-Kwon Lee, Kyungkon Kim, Min Jae Ko, Yong Hyun Kim, Won Mok Kim, and Nam-Gyu Park

Opt. Express 18(S3), A395-A402 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Thickness-limited performance of CuInSe₂ nanocrystal photovoltaic devices

Vahid A. Akhavan, Matthew G. Panthani, Brian W. Goodfellow, Dariya K. Reid, and Brian A. Korgel

Opt. Express 18(S3), A411-A420 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

High efficiency, broadband solar cell architectures based on arrays of volumetrically distributed narrowband photovoltaic fibers

Brendan O’Connor, Denis Nothern, Kevin P. Pipe, and Max Shtein

Opt. Express 18(S3), A432-A443 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Structural templating of multiple polycrystalline layers in organic photovoltaic cells

Brian E. Lassiter, Richard R. Lunt, C. Kyle Renshaw, and Stephen R. Forrest

Opt. Express 18(S3), A444-A450 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Dead zones in colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics: evidence and implications

D. Aaron R. Barkhouse, Illan J. Kramer, Xihua Wang, and Edward H. Sargent

Opt. Express 18(S3), A451-A457 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

ITO-free large-area organic solar cells

Seungkeun Choi, William J. Potscavage, and Bernard Kippelen

Opt. Express 18(S3), A458-A466 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Commercial status of thin-film photovoltaic devices and materials

Johanna Schmidtke

Opt. Express 18(S3), A477-A486 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Fundamental limit of light trapping in grating structures

Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Raman, and Shanhui Fan

Opt. Express 18(S3), A366-A380 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

L-band tunable external cavity laser based on 1.58 μm superluminescent diode integrated with spot-size converter

Su Hwan Oh, Ki-Hong Yoon, Ki Soo Kim, Jongbae Kim, O-Kyun Kwon, Dae Kon Oh, Young-Ouk Noh, and Hyung-Jong Lee

Opt. Express 18(S3), A300-A306 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Phosphor-converted LED modeling by bidirectional photometric data

Chien-Hsiang Hung and Chung-Hao Tien

Opt. Express 18(S3), A261-A271 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

MgO nano-pyramids structure for enhancement of light extraction efficiency in vertical light-emitting diodes

Jun Ho Son, Hak Ki Yu, and Jong-Lam Lee

Opt. Express 18(S3), A403-A410 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Absorbing one-dimensional planar photonic crystal for amorphous silicon solar cell

Ounsi El Daif, Emmanuel Drouard, Guillaume Gomard, Anne Kaminski, Alain Fave, Mustapha Lemiti, Sungmo Ahn, Sihan Kim, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas, Heonsu Jeon, and Christian Seassal

Opt. Express 18(S3), A293-A299 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

3D light harnessing based on coupling engineering between 1D-2D Photonic Crystal membranes and metallic nano-antenna

Ali Belarouci, Taha Benyattou, Xavier Letartre, and Pierre Viktorovitch

Opt. Express 18(S3), A381-A394 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

A strong antireflective solar cell prepared by tapering silicon nanowires

Jin-Young Jung, Zhongyi Guo, Sang-Won Jee, Han-Don Um, Kwang-Tae Park, and Jung-Ho Lee

Opt. Express 18(S3), A286-A292 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Improved optical transmission and current matching of a triple-junction solar cell utilizing sub-wavelength structures

M.-Y. Chiu, C.-H. Chang, M.-A. Tsai, F.-Y. Chang, and Peichen Yu

Opt. Express 18(S3), A308-A313 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparison and optimization of randomly textured surfaces in thin-film solar cells

C. Rockstuhl, S. Fahr, K. Bittkau, T. Beckers, R. Carius, F.-J. Haug, T. Söderström, C. Ballif, and F. Lederer

Opt. Express 18(S3), A335-A342 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of bifunctional linker on the performance of P3HT/CdSe quantum dot-linker-ZnO nanocolumn photovoltaic device

Tsung-Wei Zeng, I-Shuo Liu, Fang-Chi Hsu, Kuo-Tung Huang, Hsuieh-Chung Liao, and Wei-Fang Su

Opt. Express 18(S3), A357-A365 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Resource efficient plasmon-based 2D-photovoltaics with reflective support

Carl Hägglund and S. Peter Apell

Opt. Express 18(S3), A343-A356 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Phonon thermal conductivity suppression of bulk silicon nanowire composites for efficient thermoelectric conversion

Ting-Gang Chen, Peichen Yu, Rone-Hwa Chou, and Ci-Ling Pan

Opt. Express 18(S3), A467-A476 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Design and global optimization of high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic systems

Peter Bermel, Michael Ghebrebrhan, Walker Chan, Yi Xiang Yeng, Mohammad Araghchini, Rafif Hamam, Christopher H. Marton, Klavs F. Jensen, Marin Soljačić, John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson, and Ivan Celanovic

Opt. Express 18(S3), A314-A334 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Using autocloning effects to develop broad-bandwidth, omnidirectional antireflection structures for silicon solar cells

Y. C. Lee, S. C. Tseng, H. L Chen, C. C. Yu, W. L. Cheng, C. H. Du, and C. H. Lin

Opt. Express 18(S3), A421-A431 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced absorption in optically-thin solar cells by scattering from embedded dielectric nanoparticles: erratum

James R. Nagel and Michael A. Scarpulla

Opt. Express 18(S3), A307-A307 (2010)  View: HTML | PDF