Metal‐assisted chemical etching of silicon in oxidizing HF solutions: origin, mechanism, development, and black silicon solar cell application

C Huo, J Wang, H Fu, X Li, Y Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐assisted chemical etching (MacEtch) of silicon in oxidizing hydrofluoric acid (HF)
solutions has emerged as a prominent top‐down micro/nanofabrication approach for a wide …

Regulation of surface texturization through copper-assisted chemical etching for silicon solar cells

Y Zhao, Y Liu, W Chen, J Wu, Q Chen, H Tang, Y Wang… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Various structures were fabricated through a copper-assisted chemical etching method for
texturization of monocrystalline silicon solar cells, including nanopore, inverted pyramid, V …

High-efficiency multi-crystalline black silicon solar cells achieved by additive assisted Ag-MACE

X Li, Z Gao, D Zhang, K Tao, R Jia, S Jiang, B Wang… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
It is important for uniform texture on crystallites with different orientation of diamond wire
sawn multi-crystalline silicon solar cells by Ag metal-assisted chemical etching method (Ag …

Fabrication of a Periodic Inverse Micropyramid (PIMP)‐Si/In2Se3 Heterojunction Photodetector Array for RGB‐IR Image Sensing Application

C Zhang, CY Zhu, Z Yang, DH Lin… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Here, the fabrication of an addressable 8× 8 photodetector array is reported by combining
In2Se3 nanofilm with periodic inverse micropyramid‐Si (PIMP‐Si), which is obtained …

Light trap** in conformal CuO/Si pyramids heterojunction for self-powered broadband photodetection

JY Li, LQ Shan, LY Liang, SR Chen… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we report a conformal CuO/Si micropyramids heterojunction photodetector
fabricated by RF reactive magnetron sputtering CuO nanofilm onto the dense and random Si …

Forming submicron in micron texture on the diamond‐wire‐sawn mc‐Si wafer by introducing artificial defects

C Wu, S Zou, J Zhu, X Ye, J Ding, H Sun… - Progress in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Based on a traditional acid etch system (ie, HNO3/HF), a complex texture comprising
microscale and submicroscale structures was produced on the surface of a diamond‐wire …

Influence of different-sized inverted-pyramids of silicon texture by Ag manipulation on solar cell performance

J Wu, Y Liu, W Chen, Y Zhao, Q Chen, H Tang… - Applied Surface …, 2020 - Elsevier
As the development of PV industry, inverted pyramid has become an ideal structure to
replace the upright pyramid to boost the cell efficiency. However, there is a serious gap in …

Improvement of saw damage removal to fabricate uniform black silicon nanostructure on large-area multi-crystalline silicon wafers

X Li, K Tao, H Ge, D Zhang, Z Gao, R Jia, S Chen, Z Ji… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The first step of preparing black silicon solar cells by Ag metal-assisted chemical etching
method (Ag-MACE) is to remove the saw damage layer on the surface of diamond wire saw …

Large-scale preparation of 22.06% efficiency single-crystalline silicon solar cells with inverted pyramid microstructure through nanostructure rebuilding treatment

H Gu, Z Guan, Y Liu - Materials Research Express, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The inverted pyramid microstructures (IPMS) were fabricated jointly by metal-assisted
chemical etching (MACE) technology with extremely low concentration of silver ions to …

One-step Cu-assisted chemical etching at room temperature of inverted pyramid array for high-performance crystalline silicon solar cells

Z Yu, R Li, K See, Y Zhang, J Hu, P **, Z Yue, S Duo… - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous studies on the one-step Cu-assisted texturization of silicon wafers have
predominantly focused on etching conditions at relatively high temperatures, which are …