Improved antireflection properties and optimized structure for passivation of well-separated, vertical silicon nanowire arrays for solar cell applications

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 248-252

  Zuo, Zewen ^a,b   Zhu, Kai ^a   Cui, Guanglei ^a   Huang, Wanxia ^a   Qu, Jun ^a   Shi, Yi ^b   Liu, Yousong ^c   Ji, Guangbin ^c  

^a ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Antireflection property; Conformal coating; Supercritical drying; Well separated SiNWs

Indexed keywords

ANODIC OXIDATION; DRYING; NANOWIRES; PASSIVATION; REFLECTION; SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON LAYERS; ANODIC ALUMINUM OXIDE TEMPLATE; ANTI-REFLECTION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITED; CONFORMAL COATINGS; METAL-ASSISTED CHEMICAL ETCHING; SUPERCRITICAL DRYING; WELL-SEPARATED SINWS;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84897507904     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.03.026     Document Type: Article

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