Nanostructured thin film silicon solar cells efficiency improvement using gold nanoparticles

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 209, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1475-1480

  Pudasaini, Pushpa Raj ^a   Ayon, Arturo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

antireflection coatings; efficiency; optical absorption; solar cells; thin films

Indexed keywords

AU NANOPARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; DETAILED BALANCE; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INCIDENT RADIATION; LOCALIZED PLASMON RESONANCE; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; NANOHOLES; NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILM; PASSIVATION LAYER; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TEXTURED SURFACE; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; GOLD DEPOSITS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; NITRIDES; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACES; THIN FILMS;

GOLD;

EID: 84865016282     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201228022     Document Type: Article

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