Flexible carbon nanotube/mono-crystalline Si thin-film solar cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Huanhuan ^a   Wei, Jinquan ^a   Jia, Yi ^b   Cui, Xian ^a   Wang, Kunlin ^a   Wu, Dehai ^c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Heterojunction; Si thin film; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; EFFICIENCY; ETCHING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACE STATES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

BENDING RECOVERIES; CRYSTALLINE SI; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; FILL FACTOR; GOOD STABILITY; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INITIAL EFFICIENCY; KOH SOLUTION;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84919905552     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-514     Document Type: Article

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