A 19.8% efficient honeycomb multicrystalline silicon solar cell with improved light trapping

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1978-1983

  Zhao, Jianhua ^a   Wang, Aihua ^a   Campbell, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

High efficiency; Light trapping; Multicrystalline; Randomized scatter; Silicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

DETRIMENTAL ELECTRONIC ACTIVITY; INVERTED PYRAMID STRUCTURE; LIGHT TRAPPING; RANDOMIZED SCATTER;

CURRENT DENSITY; ETCHING; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXIDES; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; RAY TRACING; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033320409     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.791985     Document Type: Article

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