Low cost and high performance Al nanoparticles for broadband light trapping in Si wafer solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yinan ^a   Ouyang, Zi ^a   Stokes, Nicholas ^a   Jia, Baohua ^a   Shi, Zhengrong ^b   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AL-NANOPARTICLES; BROADBAND LIGHT; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LOW COSTS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PLASMONIC; SI WAFER;

ALUMINUM; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE; SILVER;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84859792509     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3703121     Document Type: Article

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