Journal
IEEE JOURNAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 129-133Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2180894
Keywords
Etching; nanopatterning; photovoltaic cells; semiconductor nanostructures
Funding
- Department of Energy Division of Materials Science [DEFG02-07ER46471]
- Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- National Science Foundation [0749028]
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [0749028] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Solar cells, consisting of core-shell p-n junction silicon micropillars on a thin membrane fabricated using soft lithography and metal-assisted chemical etching, are studied as a function of geometrical designs. Significant enhancement in absorption rate is found without much dependence on the pillar diameters in the range of 0.5-2 mu m. However, the short-circuit current increases continuously with diameter, which is inversely proportional to the total surface area for a fixed diameter/pitch pillar array. This study provides unambiguous evidence that surface recombination is the dominant loss mechanism in nanowire- or micropillar-based solar cells.
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