18.45%-Efficient Multi-Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells with Novel Nanoscale Pseudo-Pyramid Texture

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 6708-6716

  Ye, Xiaoya ^a   Zou, Shuai ^a   Chen, Kexun ^a   Li, Jianjiang ^a   Huang, Jie ^a   Cao, Fang ^a   Wang, Xusheng ^a   Zhang, Lingjun ^a   Wang, Xue Feng ^a   Shen, Mingrong ^a   Su, Xiaodong ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

metal catalyzed chemical etching; multi crystalline silicon solar cells; nano pyramid textures; passivation; power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CATALYSIS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ETCHING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROMETERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PASSIVATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ENHANCED LIGHT ABSORPTIONS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION LINES; METAL CATALYZED CHEMICAL ETCHINGS; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; NANO-PYRAMIDS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85027939747     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201401589     Document Type: Article

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