Optically improved solar cell using tapered silicon nanowires

2010 10th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1163-1166

  Jung, Jin Young ^a   Guo, Zhongyi ^a   Jee, Sang Won ^a   Um, Han Don ^a   Park, Kwang Tae ^a   Lee, Jung Ho ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AREAL DENSITIES; CHEMICAL ETCHING; COST-EFFICIENT; ELECTROLESS; ETCHING TIME; KOH ETCHING; KOH SOLUTION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CHARACTERISTICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ETCHING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79951846075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2010.5697880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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