Heterojunction based hybrid silicon nanowire solar cell: Surface termination, photoelectron and photoemission spectroscopy study

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1050-1061

  Bashouti, Muhammad Y ^a   Pietsch, Matthias ^a   Brönstrup, Gerald ^a   Sivakov, Vladimir ^b   Ristein, Jürgen ^c   Christiansen, Silke ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Photoelectron yield; Radial heterojunction; Silicon nanowire; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SILICA; SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS;

FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED SINW; INTERFACIAL CONTROL; PHOTOELECTRON YIELD; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; SILICON NANOWIRES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE TERMINATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908024989     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2315     Document Type: Article

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