Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

Currently single junction Si solar photovoltaic limitation and scope of Si hetero-junction cell
has driven research towards advanced solar cell. Successful absorption of high energy …

Black silicon (b‐Si) has many attractive properties and is currently being adopted in various
fields of semiconductor technology. It is shown here that b‐Si during thermal activation may …

Porous silicon (pSi) surface enhances light trap** in which improves the silicon solar cell
performance. Metal assisted chemical etching (MaCE) technique was used to synthesize …

Photovoltaic properties of buried metallic contacts (BMCs) with and without application of a
front porous silicon (PS) layer on multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells were …

Photovoltaic research activities are related to material innovation that can be obtained at a
comparatively low cost. Semiconductor p-type multi-crystalline Czochralskyc (CZ)-grown …

The aims of this work are to getter undesirable impurities from low-cost multicrystalline
silicon (mc-Si) wafers and then enhance their electronic properties. We used an efficient …

As widely known in silicon-based solar cells, the intrinsic parameters are decisive factors for
internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and solar cells performances. Particularly, the front surface …

Numerical finite differential time domain (FDTD) tools were used in this study for predicting
the optical characteristics through the nanostructure of composite silver-porous silicon (Ag …

Surface texturing of silicon wafer is a key step to enhance light absorption and to improve
the solar cell performances. While alkaline‐texturing of single crystalline silicon wafers was …