Effective light trapping in thin film silicon solar cells from textured Al doped ZnO substrates with broad surface feature distributions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Yanfeng ^a   Zhang, Xiaodan ^a   Bai, Lisha ^a   Huang, Qian ^a   Wei, Changchun ^a   Zhao, Ying ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AL-DOPED ZNO; ALUMINUM-DOPED ZNO; FILL FACTOR; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LONG WAVELENGTH; MULTI-STEP; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; RANGE DISTRIBUTION; REDEPOSITION; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SMALL FEATURES; SURFACE FEATURE; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

DEPOSITION; ETCHING; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION; ZINC OXIDE;

ALUMINUM COATINGS;

EID: 84863321631     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4731775     Document Type: Article

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