Correlation of texture of Ag/ZnO back reflector and photocurrent in hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 104, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-17

  Yan, Baojie ^a   Yue, Guozhen ^a   Sivec, Laura ^a   Owens Mawson, Jessica ^a   Yang, Jeffrey ^a   Guha, Subhendu ^a  

^a UNITED SOLAR OVONIC LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Back reflectors; Light trapping; Nanocrystalline silicon; Solar cell; Thin film silicon; VHF glow discharge

Indexed keywords

BACK REFLECTORS; FEATURE SIZES; HYDROGENATED NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; HYDROGENATED NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON (NC-SI:H); LIGHT-TRAPPING; NC-SI:H; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; THIN FILM SILICON; ZNO LAYERS;

GLOW DISCHARGES; HYDROGENATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTURES; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON;

EID: 84861164324     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.04.036     Document Type: Article

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