A practical superhydrophilic self cleaning and antireflective surface for outdoor photovoltaic applications

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 46-51

  Son, Jaesung ^a   Kundu, Shreya ^a   Verma, Lalit K ^a   Sakhuja, Mridul ^a   Danner, Aaron J ^a   Bhatia, Charanjit S ^a   Yang, Hyunsoo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antireflection; Long term test; Nanostructures; Self cleaning effect; Solar cell efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; ANTIREFLECTIVE; ANTIREFLECTIVE EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; GLASS PACKAGING; LONG TERM TEST; LOTUS LEAF; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SELF CLEANING; SELF-CLEANING EFFECTS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCY; SUPER-HYDROPHILIC; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; SURFACE CHEMICALS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; WATER CONTACT ANGLE;

CHEMICAL CLEANING; CONTACT ANGLE; DROPS; EFFICIENCY; GLASS; GLASS PLANTS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TREATMENT;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84855304910     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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