Broadband enhancement in thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells enabled by nucleated silver nanoparticles

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2187-2192

  Chen, Xi ^a   Jia, Baohua ^a   Saha, Jhantu K ^a   Cai, Boyuan ^a   Stokes, Nicholas ^a   Qiao, Qi ^b   Wang, Yongqian ^b   Shi, Zhengrong ^b   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Broadband enhancement; light scattering; nucleated silver nanoparticles; silicon thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING LAYERS; ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; BACK CONTACT; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; CELL RESEARCH; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; INTEGRATION METHOD; PLASMONIC; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SILICON THIN FILM; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SOLAR INDUSTRIES; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WET CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS;

SILVER;

EID: 84861069595     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl203463z     Document Type: Article

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