A vertical, high density and sub-100 nm Si nanorod array fabricated by nanosphere template for photovoltaic application

2010 10th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 320-323

  Thiyagu, Subramani ^a   Devi, Parvathy ^a   Pei, Zingway ^a   Chen, Yi Chan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ETCHING; ETCHING PROCESS; HIGH DENSITY; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOPATTERNING; NANOROD ARRAYS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS; SI FILMS; SI NANOWIRE; SI SUBSTRATES; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SILVER CATALYST; SUB-100 NM; TEMPLATED; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; NANORODS; NANOSPHERES; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79951849172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2010.5697756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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