Optical absorption enhancement in nanopore textured-silicon thin film for photovoltaic application

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-42

  Wang, Fei ^a   Yu, Hongyu ^a   Li, Junshuai ^a   Sun, Xiaowei ^a   Wang, Xincai ^b   Zheng, Hongyu ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPORE ARRAY; NANOSTRUCTURE SURFACE; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PORE DIAMETERS; SILICON THIN FILM; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TEXTURED SURFACE;

ABSORPTION; NANOPORES; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SOLAR ENERGY; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 76149123607     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000040     Document Type: Article

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