Faceting and disorder in nanowire solar cell arrays

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1848-1853

  Pickett, Evan ^a,b   Gu, Anjia ^a   Huo, Yijie ^a   Garnett, Erik ^b   Hu, Shu ^b   Sarmiento, Tomas ^a   Thombare, Shruti ^b   Liang, Dong ^a   Li, Shuang ^a   Cui, Yi ^b   McGehee, Michael ^b   McLntyre, Paul ^b   Harris, James ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL SIMULATION; FABRICATED DEVICE; GAAS; LIGHT TRAPPING EFFECTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MINORITY CARRIER; NANO SCALE; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SURFACE FEATURE;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); GERMANIUM; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 78650163967     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5615961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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