Amorphous silicon nanocone array solar cell

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-6

  Thiyagu, Subramani ^a   Pei, Zingway ^a   Jhong, Ming Sian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Nanocone; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CARRIER COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; HYDROGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; NANOCONE; PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLYSTYRENE NANOSPHERES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84859392845     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-1     Document Type: Article

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