@inproceedings{53be58afe216405590d8d28a4d37f604,
title = "Efficiency enhancement of the thin-silicon photovoltaics using indium-tin-oxide nanowhiskers",
abstract = "Thin wafer-based solar cells have the potential to significantly decrease the cost of photovoltaics. Light trapping is particularly critical in such thin-wafer crystalline silicon solar cells in order to increase light absorption and hence cell efficiency. In this article we investigate the indium-tin-oxide nanowhisker on textured silicon surface for enhancing the near-infrared absorbance of silicon photovoltaics. The nanowhiskers facilitate optical transmission in the near-infrared by functioning as impedance matching layers with effective refractive indices gradually varying from 1 to 1.3. Materials with such unique refractive index characteristics are not readily available in nature. As a result, the solar cell with combined textures achieves quantum efficiencies enhancement for a broad wavelength range of 900 to 1100 nm, which is crucial to the development of advanced thin-substrate silicon solar cells.",
author = "Chang, {Wei Lun} and Liu, {En Ting} and Chang, {Chia Hua} and Pei-Chen Yu and Wu, {Chien Hung}",
year = "2011",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186540",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424499656",
series = "Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference",
pages = "2852--2854",
booktitle = "Program - 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2011",
note = "null ; Conference date: 19-06-2011 Through 24-06-2011",
}