Numerical approach to the investigation of performance of silicon nanowire solar cells embedded in a SiO2 matrix

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 11 PART2, 2012, Pages

  Kurokawa, Yasuyoshi ^a,b   Kato, Shinya ^a   Watanabe, Yuya ^a   Yamada, Akira ^a   Konagai, Makoto ^a   Ohta, Yoshimi ^c   Niwa, Yusuke ^c   Hirota, Masaki ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Nissan Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; P-TYPE; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; SILICON NANOWIRES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEVICES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HYDROGENATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SIZE DETERMINATION; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON OXIDES;

EID: 84871393624     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.51.11PE12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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