Growth of vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays as antireflection layer on silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 930-934

  Chen, J Y ^a   Sun, K W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antireflection; Nanorod array; Solution synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; ANTIREFLECTION LAYERS; GROWTH TIME; NANOROD ARRAYS; NANOROD MORPHOLOGIES; POLY-SI; REFLECTION PROPERTIES; SI SOLAR CELLS; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; SOLUTION SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

POLYSILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

NANORODS;

EID: 77949654159     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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