Black Ultra-Thin Crystalline Silicon Wafers Reach the 4n2 Absorption Limit-Application to IBC Solar Cells.
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DOI: 10.1002/smll.202302250
Abstract: Cutting costs by progressively decreasing substrate thickness is a common theme in the crystalline silicon photovoltaic industry for the last decades, since drastically thinner wafers would significantly reduce the substrate-related costs. In addition to the… read more here.
Keywords: absorption limit; silicon; crystalline silicon; absorption ... See more keywords
Breaking the absorption limit of Si toward SWIR wavelength range via strain engineering.
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb0576
Abstract: Silicon has been widely used in the microelectronics industry. However, its photonic applications are restricted to visible and partial near-infrared spectral range owing to its fundamental optical bandgap (1.12 eV). With recent advances in strain… read more here.
Keywords: strain engineering; absorption limit; range;