Design and growth of III-V nanowire solar cell arrays on low cost substrates

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2034-2037

  Gu, Anjia ^a   Huo, Yijie ^a   Hu, Shu ^b   Sarmiento, Tomas ^a   Pickett, Evan ^a,b   Liang, Dong ^a   Li, Shuang ^a   Lin, Angie ^c   Thombare, Shruti ^b   Yu, Zongfu ^b   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Mclntyre, Paul ^b   Cui, Yi ^b   Harris, James ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL; CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; DEVICE DESIGN; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; EPITAXIALLY GROWN; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; GAAS; GAAS/GE; GROWTH PROCESS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; III-V SOLAR CELLS; INCIDENT ANGLES; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; LATTICE-MISMATCHED; LOW COSTS; MOCVD; MULTI-JUNCTION CELLS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; PLANAR SURFACE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SURFACE KINETICS; TCAD SIMULATION; TERRESTRIAL APPLICATION; UTILITY SECTOR;

ASPECT RATIO; COSTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC WIRE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GERMANIUM; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFLECTIVE COATINGS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 78650084083     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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