Highly-ordered vertical Si nanowire/nanowall decorated solar cells

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23078-23084

  Wang, Jian ^a   Li, Zhenhua ^a,b   Singh, Navab ^a   Lee, Sungjoo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOWIRES;

NANOWALLS; OPTICAL REFLECTANCE; SERIES RESISTANCES; SI NANOWIRE; SI SOLAR CELLS;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 80755167703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023078     Document Type: Article

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