Low-cost high-haze films based on ZnO nanorods for light scattering in thin c-Si solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Strano, V ^a   Smecca, E ^b   Depauw, V ^c   Trompoukis, C ^c,d   Alberti, A ^b   Reitano, R ^a   Crupi, I ^a   Gordon, I ^c   Mirabella, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CNR IMM   (Italy)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; NANORODS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

C-SI SOLAR CELL; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT DIFFUSION; SCATTERING SIMULATIONS; TRANSMITTED LIGHT; WAVELENGTH RANGES; ZNO NANOROD;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84923809273     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4905389     Document Type: Article

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