Title :
Ordered silicon nanowire array based solar cells produced by metal assisted chemical etching
Author :
Chern, Winston ; Yu, Ki Jun ; Chanda, Debashis ; Shin, Jae Cheol ; Rogers, John A. ; Li, Xiuling
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
Solar cells consisting of extremely uniform and ordered large-area arrays of silicon micropillars are fabricated using metal-assisted chemical etching. Micropillar diameter, pitch, height, and core-shell doping profiles are optimized for light trapping and carrier collection.
Keywords :
doping profiles; elemental semiconductors; etching; micro-optics; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical arrays; optical fabrication; silicon; solar cells; Si; carrier collection; core-shell doping profiles; light trapping; metal-assisted chemical etching; optical fabrication; ordered silicon nanowire array based solar cells; silicon micropillars;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699090
