Thin-film silicon triple-junction solar cell with 12.5% stable efficiency on innovative flat light-scattering substrate

Karin Soderstrom, Gregory Bugnon, Remi Biron, Celine Pahud, Fanny Meillaud et al. Citation: J. Appl. Phys. 112, 114503 (2012); doi: 10.1063/1.4768272 View online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4768272 View Table of Contents: http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/JAPIAU/v112/i11 Published by the American Institute of Physics.

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