Optical absorption enhancement in freestanding gaas thin film nanopyramid arrays

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1254-1260

  Liang, Dong ^a   Huo, Yijie ^b   Kang, Yangsen ^b   Wang, Ken Xingze ^a   Gu, Anjia ^a   Tan, Meiyueh ^b   Yu, Zongfu ^b   Li, Shuang ^a   Jia, Jieyang ^b   Bao, Xinyu ^b   Wang, Shuang ^b   Yao, Yan ^b   Wong, H S Philip ^b   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Cui, Yi ^b   Harris, James S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; BALANCE OF SYSTEMS; DEPOSITION TIME; GAAS; GAAS THIN FILMS; GASPHASE; III-V COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR; III-V SOLAR CELLS; INCIDENT ANGLES; LIGHT MANAGEMENT; LIGHT PATH; LIGHT TRAPPING EFFECTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MATERIAL USAGE; MULTI-JUNCTION CELLS; NANO SPHERE LITHOGRAPHY; NANOPYRAMID ARRAYS; NANOPYRAMIDS; SUBSTRATE REMOVAL; ULTRA-THIN;

COST REDUCTION; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

LIGHT;

EID: 84867312447     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201200022     Document Type: Article

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