A simple and low-cost technique for silicon nanowire arrays based solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 357-362

  Huang, Bohr Ran ^a   Yang, Ying Kan ^a   Lin, Tzu Ching ^a   Yang, Wen Luh ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Phosphorus silicate glasses (PSG); Silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTANCE; DOPING PROCESS; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LOW COSTS; MASS PRODUCTION; PHOSPHORUS PENTOXIDE; PHOTOELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SERIES RESISTANCES; SILICATE GLASS; SILICON NANOWIRE (SINW) ARRAYS; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SILICON NANOWIRES;

ASPECT RATIO; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; NANOWIRES; PHOSPHORUS; REFLECTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOLAR CELLS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84855323287     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.11.031     Document Type: Article

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