Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Reference glass substrates (a) total transmission (b) and refractive index. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. (a) The linear regression used to determine the Gaussian profile radius ω0 and (b) the cross section of the obtained profiles. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Schematic diagram showing the spot overlap in the X- and Y- directions on the substrate surface. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. AFM images of EAGLE XG ® (a)–(c) textured with 2000, 1600 and 1000 mm/s, BOROFLOAT ® 33 (d)–(f) and SGG DIAMANT ® (g)– (i) both with 2000, 1600 and 1300 mm/s. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. (a) Transmission of substrates textured at 1000 mm/s and (b) the angular distribution intensity (ADI) in transmission at 0.7 μm wavelengths of substrates ablated at 2000 and 1000 mm/s respectively. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Schematic diagram of thin-film solar cells on textured glass substrates in the (a) substrate (nip) and (b) superstrate (pin) configuration. The light is incident from the top for both the solar cells. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Simulation domain of the layer stack with a substrate (a) reference showing the reflection sensor and excitation plane with the periodic and absorbing boundary conditions (b) the crater profile on the glass surface and (c) crater with a modified region by Δn± Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Optical generation rate profiles at 0.7 μm wavelength of (a) the reference (b) increased Δn (c) decreased Δn−0.005 refractive index region and respectively for (d)–(f) the rounded and (g)–(i) Gaussian crater profile. The maximum intensity of the color bars showing the optical generation rate (a)–(i) is set to 1×1020 cm−2 s−1. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE

Date of download: 7/9/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Absorption of the layers on the (a) reference (solid), rounded crater (dashed), Gaussian crater (dotted) substrates (b) with an increased (black) and decreased (gray) refractive index region. Figure Legend: From: Laser textured substrates for light in-coupling in thin-film solar cells J. Photon. Energy. 2014;4(1): doi: /1.JPE