Surface chemistry and morphology effects on optoelectronic transport at metal/nanostructured silicon/silicon structures

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ambrico, Marianna ^a   Di Mundo, Rosa ^b   Francesco Ambrico, Paolo ^a   D'Agostino, Riccardo ^b   Ligonzo, Teresa ^b   Palumbo, Fabio ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY EFFECT; NANO-STRUCTURED; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SILICON SURFACES; SINGLE-STEP; SURFACE-TEXTURING; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84864184141     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4710989     Document Type: Article

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