A review on plasma-assisted VLS synthesis of silicon nanowires and radial junction solar cells

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 39, 2014, Pages

  Misra, Soumyadeep ^a   Yu, Linwei ^a,b   Chen, Wanghua ^a   Foldyna, Martin ^a   Roca I Cabarrocas, Pere ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

plasma assisted VLS; radial junction; silicon nanowires; solar cells

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

ANTI-REFLECTION EFFECTS; CARRIER COLLECTION; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS; RADIAL JUNCTION; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON THIN FILM;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84924396389     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/39/393001     Document Type: Review

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