Amorphous silicon core-shell nanowire schottky solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 453-456

  Zhu, Jia ^a   Xu, Yueqing ^b   Wang, Qi ^b   Cui, Yi ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COLLECTION; CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; CONTROL THIN FILM; CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EXCITON GENERATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-TEMPERATURE PROCESS; NANOWIRE DEVICES; SCHOTTKY; SILICON CORES;

ABSORPTION; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 78650140020     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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