Composite transparent electrode of graphene nanowalls and silver nanowires on micropyramidal Si for high-efficiency schottky junction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 20179-20183

  Jiao, Tianpeng ^a,b   Liu, Jian ^a,c   Wei, Dapeng ^a   Feng, Yanhui ^b   Song, Xuefen ^a   Shi, Haofei ^a   Jia, Shuming ^a   Sun, Wentao ^c   Du, Chunlei ^a  

^a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

composite electrode; graphene nanowalls; high efficiency; one step growth; silver nanowires; solar cells; stability; three dimensional Si

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GRAPHENE; NANOWIRES; PLASMA CVD; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILVER;

COMPOSITE ELECTRODE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; INTERFACIAL CONDITIONS; NANOWALLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SILVER NANOWIRES; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84941771224     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05565     Document Type: Article

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