Porous GaAs as a possible antireflective coating and optical diffusor for III-V solar cells

✍ Scribed by Flamand, Giovanni ;Poortmans, Jef

• Book ID: 105363165
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Volume: 202
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8965
• DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200461199

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We have studied the possibility of using (nano‐)porous GaAs top layers as antireflective coating and optical diffusor in high‐efficiency III‐V solar cells. Antireflective coating behaviour of thin, nanoporous GaAs layers has been demonstrated, whereas initial experiments on applying these porous layers on top of a GaAs solar cell structure also suggest an optical diffusion of the incident light in the porous layer. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)