Boosting short-circuit current with rationally designed periodic Si nanopillar surface texturing for solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3224-3229

  Wong, She Mein ^a,b   Yu, Hong Yu ^a,b   Li, Yali ^a,b   Li, Junshuai ^a,b   Sun, Xiao Wei ^a,c   Singh, Navab ^b   Lo, Patrick G Q ^b   Kwong, Dim Lee ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Short circuit current density; Si nanopillars (SiNPs); solar cell

Indexed keywords

NANOPILLAR; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; SI NANOPILLARS (SINPS); SI NANOWIRE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SURFACE-TEXTURING; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TOP-DOWN METHODS;

ABSORPTION; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SILICON;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 80052101255     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2159978     Document Type: Article

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