Ultra-low reflection porous silicon nanowires for solar cell applications

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16861-16870

  Najar, A ^a   Charrier, J ^b   Pirasteh, P ^b   Sougrat, R ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; POROUS SILICON; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

ANTI-REFLECTIVE LAYERS; BRIGHTFIELD; BRUGGEMAN MODEL; CARRIER COLLECTION; CIRCULAR CONES; CONE SHAPE; ETCHING TIME; HIGH DENSITY; LINEAR DEPENDENCY; MATRIX FORMALISM; METAL-ASSISTED CHEMICAL ETCHING; OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; TEM IMAGES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; VOLUME RECONSTRUCTION;

REFLECTION;

EID: 84864131441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.016861     Document Type: Article

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