Coreshell heterojunction solar cells on silicon nanowire arrays

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 226-230

  Jia, Guobin ^a   Steglich, Martin ^a   Sill, Ingo ^a   Falk, Fritz ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

a Si; Heterojunction; Metal assisted wet chemical etching; Nanowires; Silicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

A-SI; A-SI LAYERS; CONTACT AREAS; CORE-SHELL; ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED CURRENT; FILLING FACTOR; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; N TYPE SILICON; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; P-TYPE; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SILVER CATALYST;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON BEAMS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMA DEPOSITION; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; WET ETCHING;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 80855144196     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.09.062     Document Type: Article

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