Light trapping in silicon nanowire solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1082-1087

  Garnett, Erik ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Nanowircs; Silicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BACK REFLECTORS; CONTROL SAMPLES; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; LAMBERTIAN; LIGHT TRAPPING; MINORITY CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; NANOWIRE DEVICES; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; ORDERED ARRAY; PATH LENGTH; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; PLANAR SEMICONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SILICON FILM THICKNESS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR POWER; SURFACE PASSIVATION; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; THICK SILICON FILMS; THIN SILICON FILMS; THIN-FILM STRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; COST REDUCTION; METALLIC FILMS; NANOWIRES; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN; SURFACES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77949437431     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl100161z     Document Type: Article

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