Fabrication of large area high density, ultra-low reflection silicon nanowire arrays for efficient solar cell applications

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1136-1143

  Thiyagu, Subramani ^a   Devi, B Parvathy ^a   Pei, Zingway ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

heterojunction solar cell; polystyrene nanosphere; silicon nanowire; Ultra low reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955142862     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0162-5     Document Type: Article

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