Enhanced near-bandgap response in inp nanopillar solar cells

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Battaglia, Corsin ^a,b   Xu, Jingsan ^a,b   Zheng, Maxwell ^a,b   Yin, Xingtian ^a,b   Hettick, Mark ^a,b   Chen, Kevin ^a,b   Haegel, Nancy ^c   Javey, Ali ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

InP; nanopillars; photovoltaics; reactive ion etching; surface recombination

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; REFLECTION; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED CURRENT; INP; MINORITY-CARRIER COLLECTION; NANOPILLARS; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84904755728     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400061     Document Type: Article

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