Fabrication of silicon nanowire arrays based solar cell with improved performance

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 215-218

  Kumar, Dinesh ^a   Srivastava, Sanjay K ^a   Singh, P K ^a   Husain, M ^b   Kumar, Vikram ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Antireflection property; Silicon nanowires; Solar cells; Wet etching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; ANTI-REFLECTION; BLACK SILICON; CELL FABRICATIONS; CELL PERFORMANCE; CELL-BASED; CONTROL-CELL; FRONT SURFACES; PLANAR SURFACE; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SPECTRAL RANGE; WET-CHEMICAL ETCHING;

FABRICATION; NANOWIRES; SOLAR CELLS; WET ETCHING;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 77957668348     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2010.04.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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