Effective improvement of light trapping from double-textured ZnO:Al transparent conducting films

Materials Letters

Volumn 149, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-39

  Wang, Ying ^a,b   Ding, Wanyu ^b   Wang, Hualin ^b   Peng, Shou ^c   Wang, Yun ^c   Chai, Weiping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LIAONING   (China)

^b DALIAN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Float Glass   (China)

Author keywords

Light trapping; Sputtering; Textured surface; Thin films; ZnO:Al

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; DEPOSITION; ETCHING; OPTICAL FILMS; SOLAR CELLS; SPUTTERING; THIN FILMS; ZINC OXIDE;

ETCHING PROCESS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NAOH SOLUTIONS; TEXTURED SURFACE; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS; WORKING PRESSURES; ZNO:AL;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 84924415136     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: 18734979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2015.02.102     Document Type: Article

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