Surface texturing of sputtered ZnO:Al/Ag back reflectors for flexible silicon thin-film solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1852-1858

  Cho, Jun Sik ^a   Baek, Sanghun ^a   Lee, Jeong Chul ^a  

^a Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ag film; Back reflector; Silicon thin film solar cell; Surface texturing; ZnO:Al film

Indexed keywords

AG FILMS; BACK REFLECTORS; BI-LAYER; DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; DEPOSITION TEMPERATURES; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; FILL FACTOR; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HAZE FACTORS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOW TEMPERATURES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROUGH SURFACES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SMALL GRAINS; SMOOTH SURFACE; STAINLESS STEEL SUBSTRATES; SURFACE FEATURE; SURFACE MICROSTRUCTURES; SURFACE TEXTURING; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; TOTAL REFLECTANCE; WAVELENGTH RANGES; ZNO; ZNO:AL FILMS;

ALUMINUM; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIGHT SCATTERING; METALLIC FILMS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SCATTERING; SOLAR CELLS; STAINLESS STEEL; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZINC OXIDE;

SILVER;

EID: 79955485190     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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