Application of a computationally efficient implementation of the RCWA method to numerical simulations of thin film amorphous solar cells

This paper presents a new implementation of the Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA) method to model the propagation of electro-magnetic waves in nanostructured optoelectronic solid state devices like solar cells. The proposed method is based on an improved and computational efficient S-matrix approach that can be extended to three-dimensional geometries.