Influence of surface plasmon resonances of silver nanoparticles on optical and electrical properties of textured silicon solar cell

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Sardana, Sanjay K ^a   Chava, Venkata S N ^a   Thouti, Eshwar ^a   Chander, Nikhil ^a   Kumar, Sanjai ^b   Reddy, S R ^c   Komarala, Vamsi K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Central Electronics Limited   (India)

^c BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TEXTURES;

CELL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; RADIATIVE EFFICIENCY; SERIES RESISTANCES; SI SOLAR CELLS; SILVER NANOPARTICLE (NPS); WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84897457496     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866163     Document Type: Article

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