Optical and electrical properties of laser texturing for high-efficiency solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-235

  Abbott, Malcolm ^a   Cotter, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Laser; Multicrystalline; Silicon; Texture

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS;

LASER SHUNTING; LASER TEXTURE; MULTICRYSTALLINE; RANDOM PYRAMID TEXTURES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33646017376     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.667     Document Type: Article

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