Wire-textured silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 913-917

  Wang, Kejia ^a   Gunawan, Oki ^a   Moumen, Naim ^a   Tulevski, George ^a   Mohamed, Hisham ^b   Fallah, Babak ^c   Tutuc, Emanuel ^c   Guha, Supratik ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER DEPTH; ABSORBER LAYERS; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALIZATION; CLOSE PACKED; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CONFORMALITY; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; KEY ISSUES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOW COSTS; MASK PROCESS; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; MULTICRYSTALLINE SI; P-LAYER; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTOCURRENT GENERATIONS; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SERIES RESISTANCES; SI (100) SUBSTRATE; SILICON WIRES; SINGLE-CRYSTAL SI; THIN LAYERS; TOP-DOWN PROCESS; WIRE ARRAYS; WIRE DIAMETER;

EXPERIMENTS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYSILICON; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

WIRE;

EID: 78650155309     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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