Design guidelines of periodic Si nanowire arrays for solar cell application

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Li, Junshuai ^a,b   Yu, Hongyu ^a,b   Wong, She Mein ^a,b   Li, Xiaocheng ^a   Zhang, Gang ^b   Lo, Patrick Guo Qiang ^b   Kwong, Dim Lee ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PERIODICITY; DESIGN GUIDELINES; SI NANOWIRE; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER;

ENERGY HARVESTING; FILM THICKNESS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 77956166916     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3275798     Document Type: Article

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