Silicon nanowire-array-textured solar cells for photovoltaic application

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Chen ^a   Jia, Rui ^a,c   Yue, Huihui ^a   Li, Haofeng ^a   Liu, Xinyu ^a   Wu, Deqi ^a   Ding, Wuchang ^a   Ye, Tianchun ^a   Kasai, Seiya ^b   Tamotsu, Hashizume ^b   Chu, Junhao ^c   Wang, Shanli ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-SI SOLAR CELL; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MONOCRYSTALLINE; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL REFLECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; REFLECTION RATIO; SILICON NANOWIRES; SURFACE PASSIVATION; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; SURFACE-TEXTURING; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 78649277366     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3493733     Document Type: Article

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