Plasmonic light-trapping and quantum efficiency measurements on nanocrystalline silicon solar cells and silicon-on-insulator devices

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1245, Issue , 2010, Pages 59-64

  Zhao, Hui ^a   Ozturk, Birol ^a   Schiff, E A ^a   Yan, Baojie ^b   Yang, J ^b   Guha, S ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED SOLAR OVONIC LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; EFFICIENCY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TEXTURES; THIN FILMS;

METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON (NC-SI:H); PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS; SILICON ON INSULATOR DEVICES; SILVER THIN FILMS; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 78650340913     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1557/proc-1245-a03-02     Document Type: Conference Paper

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