High speed laser micro-texturing of Si wafer for improved light trapping for photo-voltaic application

ICALEO 2009 - 28th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, Congress Proceedings

Volumn 102, Issue , 2009, Pages 1485-1494

  Pena, Ana ^a   Wang, Zengbo ^a   Whitehead, David ^a   Li, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PUMPING (LASER); REFLECTION; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR ENERGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY; DIODE PUMPED ND:YVO4 LASERS; HIGH SPEED LASER; LASER SCANNING SPEED; LIGHT REFLECTIVITY; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON; TEXTURING TECHNIQUES;

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EID: 77953883520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2351/1.5061519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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