Enhancement of the light conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells by using nanoimprint anti-reflection layer

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 629-633

  Chen, J Y ^a   Sun, K W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anti reflection; Nanoimprint; Sub wavelength structure

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; BROAD SPECTRAL; CHEMICAL WET ETCHING; E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; EMBOSSING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT CONVERSION; MOLD PATTERN; NANO-IMPRINT; NANO-STRUCTURED; POLY-SI; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

ARGON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLDS; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; POLYSILICON; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 75149197680     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.11.028     Document Type: Article

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