Backside nanoscale texturing to improve IR response of silicon solar cells and photodetectors

Nanotechnology 2010: Electronics, Devices, Fabrication, MEMS, Fluidics and Computational - Technical Proceedings of the 2010 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 9-12

  Forbes, Leonard ^a,b   Louie, Michael Y ^a  

^a 1148 Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis   (United States)

^b L Forbes and Associates LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared response; Solar cells; Texturing

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; ANTIREFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; INFRARED LIGHT; INFRARED RESPONSE; LIGHT ENERGY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MULTIPLE INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; NANO SCALE; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; SCATTERING PROPERTY; VISIBLE LIGHT;

ABSORPTION; FLUIDICS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 78049449121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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