An 8.68% efficiency chemically-doped-free graphene-silicon solar cell using silver nanowires network buried contacts

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4135-4141

  Yang, Lifei ^a   Yu, Xuegong ^a   Hu, Weidan ^a   Wu, Xiaolei ^a   Zhao, Yan ^a   Yang, Deren ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

buried contact; graphene; silicon; silver nanowire; solar cell

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY; SHEET RESISTANCE; SILICON; SILVER; SILVER NANOWIRES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BURIED CONTACT; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITED; FABRICATION PROCESS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH-SHEET-RESISTANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL FABRICATION; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84923762640     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508211e     Document Type: Article

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