A surface-plasmon-enhanced silicon solar cell with KOH-etched pyramid structure

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 659-661

  Hwang, Jun Dar ^a   Hsieh, Don Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Au nanoparticles; conversion efficiency; short circuit current density; solar cell; surface plasmon oscillation

Indexed keywords

AU NANOPARTICLE; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; EXTINCTION SPECTRA; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; NANOPARTICLE (NPS); OSCILLATION WAVELENGTH; PYRAMID STRUCTURE; SURFACE PLASMON OSCILLATION;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CURRENT DENSITY; ETCHING; GOLD; GOLD ALLOYS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

EID: 84876990726     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2013.2253594     Document Type: Article

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