1. UV imprinting for thin film solar cell application
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Céline Pahud, Rémi Biron, Franz-Josef Haug, Corsin Battaglia, O. Cubero, Christophe Ballif, Jordi Escarré, and K. Söderström
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Silicon ,Lithography ,Materials science ,thin film ,plastic substrates ,Micromorph ,02 engineering and technology ,Quantum dot solar cell ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Polymer solar cell ,Photovoltaics ,0103 physical sciences ,Zno ,Plasmonic solar cell ,Thin film ,010302 applied physics ,business.industry ,food and beverages ,Hybrid solar cell ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells ,UV imprinting ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,photovoltaics ,solar cells ,Optoelectronics ,light trapping ,Substrate ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
UV imprinting is an interesting, low cost technique to produce large area thin film solar cells incorporating nanometric textures. Here, we review and present new results confirming that replicas of the most common textures used in photovoltaics can be obtained by UV imprinting with an excellent fidelity. The use of these replicas as substrates for amorphous and micromorph thin film silicon solar cells is also shown, together with a comparison with devices obtained on the original textures.
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- 2012
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