Design guidelines for slanting silicon nanowire arrays for solar cell application

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Hong, Lei ^a,b   Rusli, ^a   Wang, Xincai ^b   Zheng, Hongyu ^b   Wang, Hao ^a   Yu, Hongyu ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; LIGHT INTERACTION; NANOWIRE STRUCTURES; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL PERIODICITY;

DESIGN; LIGHT REFLECTION; NANOWIRES; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84883862027     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4819175     Document Type: Article

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