Plasmonic-enhanced Si Schottky barrier solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART B, 2014, Pages 591-595

  Tong, Chong ^a   Yun, Juhyung ^a   Song, Haomin ^a   Gan, Qiaoqiang ^a   Anderson, Wayne A ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanoparticles; Plasmonic enhanced; Tunable light trapping effect

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; LIGHT TRAPPING EFFECTS; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PLASMONIC-ENHANCED; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SILVER NANOPARTICLE (NPS);

NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

SILVER;

EID: 84889096653     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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