A novel silicon nanostructure with effective light trapping for polycrystalline silicon thin film solar cells by means of metal-assisted wet chemical etching

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 210, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2588-2591

  Xue, Chaowei ^a   Rao, Jing ^a   Varlamov, Sergey ^a  

^a UNSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

chemical etching; light trapping; nanostructures; silicon; solar cells; thin film

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ETCHING; LIGHT-TRAPPING; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; POLY-SI THIN FILM; POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILM; SI NANOSTRUCTURES; SILICON NANO STRUCTURES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FABRICATION; GLASS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; POROUS SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; WET ETCHING;

SILICON;

EID: 84890429867     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201330204     Document Type: Article

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