Use of porous silicon antireflection coating in multicrystalline silicon solar cell processing

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2035-2040

  Bilyalov, Renat R ^a   Stalmans, Lieven ^b   Schirone, Luigi ^b   Levy Clement, Claude ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETCHING; OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVATION; PLASTIC FILMS; POROUS SILICON; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SURFACE TREATMENT;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL; TEXTURIZATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033312110     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.791993     Document Type: Article

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