High-efficiency nanostructured window GaAs solar cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4850-4856

  Liang, Dong ^a   Kang, Yangsen ^b   Huo, Yijie ^b   Chen, Yusi ^b   Cui, Yi ^c,d   Harris, James S ^b,c  

^a Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

antireflection; GaAs; nanostructure; solar cell; window layer

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; SOLAR CELLS;

ANTI-REFLECTION; BROADBAND AND WIDE ANGLE; ENHANCED LIGHT ABSORPTIONS; GAAS; NANOSTRUCTURED SOLAR CELLS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; WINDOW LAYER;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT;

ARSENICALS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; GALLIUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84885446558     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl402680g     Document Type: Article

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