Response to "comment on 'Towards high efficiency thin-film crystalline silicon solar cells: The roles of light trapping and non-radiative recombinations'" [J. Appl. Phys. 117, 026101 (2015)]

We respond to a comment about our paper published in J. Appl. Phys. 117, 026101 (2015) on the theory of light trapping and electronic transport in thin-film silicon solar cells. We show that our analytic model is correct and the discrepancies with respect to the full numerical solution are due to the choice of parameters. With the appropriate choice, agreement between analytic model and numerical results is improved and the analytic model has a wide applicability range.