Nanowires with promise for photovoltaics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1050-1061

  Borgström, Magnus T ^a   Wallentin, Jesper ^a   Heurlin, Magnus ^a,b   Fält, Stefan ^b   Wickert, Peter ^b   Leene, Jack ^b   Magnusson, Martin H ^b   Deppert, Knut ^a   Samuelson, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Sol Voltaics AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Doping; nanowires (NWs); photovoltaics (PV)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ENERGY SOURCE; ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; GERMANIUM SUBSTRATES; LATTICE MATCHING; LOW-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES; MULTIJUNCTION; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PLANAR STRUCTURE; SOLAR PANELS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; ENERGY HARVESTING; GERMANIUM; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR RADIATION; TUNNEL DIODES; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 80051698354     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2073681     Document Type: Article

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