Investigating large area fabrication of silicon quantum dots in a nitride matrix for photovoltaic applications

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 122-125

  Scardera, G ^a   Puzzer, T ^a   McGrouther, D ^a   Pink, E ^a   Fangsuwannarak, T ^a   Conibeer, G ^a   Green, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MICROFABRICATION; NANOCRYSTALS; NITRIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SUPERLATTICES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HIGH TEMPERATURE ANNEALING; NITRIDE MATRIX; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 41749087593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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