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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/TEEM.2016.17.2.98

Plasma Textured Glass Surface Morphologies for Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells-A review  

Hussain, Shahzada Qamar (Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University)
Balaji, Nagarajan (Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Sunbo (Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University)
Raja, ayapal (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Ahn, Shihyun (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Park, Hyeongsik (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Le, Anh Huy Tuan (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kang, Junyoung (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Yi, Junsin (College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Razaq, Aamir (Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology)
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Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials / v.17, no.2, 2016 , pp. 98-103 More about this Journal
Abstract
The surface morphology of the front transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films plays a vital role in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells (a-Si TFSCs) due to their high transparency, conductivity and excellent light scattering properties. Recently, plasma textured glass surface morphologies received much attention for light trapping in a-Si TFSCs. We report various plasma textured glass surface morphologies for the high efficiency of a-Si TFSCs. Plasma textured glass surface morphologies showed high rms roughness, haze ratio with micro- and nano size surface features and are proposed for future high efficiency of a-Si TFSCs.
Keywords
Light trapping; ICP-RIE; Multi-textured glass; Rms roughness; Haze ratio; a-Si thin film solar cell;
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