Efficiency enhancement of screen-printed multicrystalline silicon solar cells by integrating gold nanoparticles via a dip coating process

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 190-204

  Fahim, Narges ^a   Ouyang, Zi ^a   Zhang, Yinan ^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

AIR MASS; AU NANOPARTICLE; DIP-COATING PROCESS; DIPCOATING METHODS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FRONT SURFACES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LOW ENERGIES; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; PHOTON MANAGEMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC MARKETS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; SCREEN-PRINTED; SEEDING METHOD; SPECTRAL RANGE; STANDARD TESTING;

COATINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

POLYSILICON;

EID: 84859799960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000190     Document Type: Article

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