Improved performance of a crystalline silicon solar cell based on ZnO/PS anti-reflection coating layers

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 517-528

  Salman, Khaldun A ^a   Omar, Khalid ^a   Hassan, Z ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Anti reflection coating; Efficiency; Porous silicon; Solar cell; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; AVERAGE DIAMETER; C-SI SOLAR CELL; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; EMISSION PEAKS; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH QUALITY; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; IV CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOCRYSTALLINES; OPTICAL REFLECTANCE; OPTICAL REFLECTOMETERS; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; RADIO-FREQUENCY SPUTTERING; RAMAN MEASUREMENTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ZNO; ZNO FILMS; ZNO NANOCRYSTALLINE FILMS;

COATINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; EFFICIENCY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FILMS; POROUS SILICON; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC; ZINC COATINGS; ZINC OXIDE;

SILICON;

EID: 80054758406     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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