Fabrication of slantingly-aligned silicon nanowire arrays for solar cell applications

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2008, Pages

  Fang, Hui ^a   Li, Xudong ^b   Song, Shuang ^b   Xu, Ying ^b   Zhu, Jing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Solar Energy Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; CELLS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; ELECTRIC WIRE; ETCHING; MULTITASKING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; NONMETALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PRECIOUS METALS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; SILVER; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

(100) SILICON; ANTIREFLECTION (AR); CELL PERFORMANCES; DEVICE PERFORMANCES; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; LARGE AREAS; METAL DEPOSITIONS; MINORITY CARRIERS; POWER-CONVERSION EFFICIENCY (PCE); SI(2 1 1) SUBSTRATES; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAY (SINW); SILVER CATALYSTS; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; SURFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITIES; WET-CHEMICAL ETCHING;

SOLAR ENERGY;

NANOWIRE; SILICON; SILVER;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CATALYST; DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 44949102206     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/25/255703     Document Type: Article

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