Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells

By Loucas Tsakalakos, J. Balch, J. Fronheiser, B. Korevaar, O. Sulima, J. Rand. 2007

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Si microwire-array solar cells (2010, methodology): “[13, 57] In particular these solar cells have failed to demonstrate opencircuit voltages (Voc) in excess of 300 mV, possibly indicative of significant recombination within the depletion region and/or at the surfaces of the cells.[13, 63, 74]”
Challenges and prospects of nanopillar-based solar cells (2009, neutral): “[27] Tsakalakos, L.”
Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells (2010, background): “e film has a high refractive index (for example, silicon), such that the wavelength in the material is small compared with the periodicity, and has a thickness of a few wavelengths. In this case, Eq. (7) can still be used to count the number of resonances. Using Eq. (6), for normal incident light, w”
Three-dimensional nanopillar-array photovoltaics on low-cost and flexible substrates. (2009, neutral): “Although the conversion efficiency of our first-generation SNOP cells reported here is already higher than most of the previously reported photovoltaics based on nanostructured materials 11–13 , further improvements are needed to meet the high-performance application requirements.”