Porous SiO2 anti-reflective coatings on large-area substrates by electrospinning and their application to solar modules

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 9-15

  Raut, Hemant Kumar ^a,b   Nair, A Sreekumaran ^c   Dinachali, Saman Safari ^a,b   Ganesh, V Anand ^a,b   Walsh, Timothy Michael ^b   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anti reflective coatings; Electrospinning; Porous SiO2; Solar modules

Indexed keywords

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; COATED GLASS; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; COST-EFFICIENT; ELECTROSPINNING PROCESS; ELECTROSPINNING SETUPS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FILM MORPHOLOGY; GLASS COATING; GLASS SUBSTRATES; LARGE-AREA GLASS SUBSTRATE; LARGE-AREA SUBSTRATES; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POROUS SIO; SIMPLE APPROACH; SOLAR MODULE; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

COATINGS; GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SINTERING; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84872736424     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.12.023     Document Type: Article

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