An efficient light-harvesting scheme using SiO 2 nanorods for InGaN multiple quantum well solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 194-198

  Ho, C H ^a   Lin, G J ^a   Fu, P H ^a   Lin, C A ^a   Yang, P C ^b   Chan, I Min ^b   Lai, K Y ^a,c   He, J H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antireflection; GaN; InGaN; Light harvesting; Nanorods

Indexed keywords

AG NANOPARTICLE; AIR MASS; ANTI-REFLECTION; DEVICE INTERFACES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ETCHING MASKS; GAN; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; INGAN; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOROD ARRAYS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SURFACE REFLECTIONS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILVER;

NANORODS;

EID: 84861741584     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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