Si microwire solar cells: Improved efficiency with a conformal SiO 2 layer

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5539-5545

  Seo, Kwanyong ^a   Yu, Young J ^b   Duane, Peter ^a,b   Zhu, Wenqi ^a   Park, Hyunsung ^a   Wober, Munib ^a,b   Crozier, Kenneth B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Zena Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

antireflection; light trapping; microwire; radial junction; silicon; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MICROWIRE; MICROWIRE SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; RADIAL JUNCTION; SILICON MICROWIRE;

OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON OXIDES;

EID: 84879678426     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401776x     Document Type: Article

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