Broadband antireflection and absorption enhancement of ultrathin silicon solar microcells enabled with density-graded surface nanostructures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Chan, Lesley ^a   Kang, Dongseok ^a   Lee, Sung Min ^a   Li, Weigu ^a   Hunter, Hajirah ^a   Yoon, Jongseung ^a  

^a Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONS; SILVER; WET ETCHING;

ABSORPTION ENHANCEMENT; BROADBAND ANTI REFLECTIONS; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURE; SURFACE REFLECTIONS;

SILICON;

EID: 84902477691     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4881260     Document Type: Article

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