Design and fabrication of silicon nanowires towards efficient solar cells

P Yu, J Wu, S Liu, J Xiong, C Jagadish, ZM Wang - Nano Today, 2016 - Elsevier
The recent rise of semiconductor nanowires opens new opportunities for realizing high
efficiency photovoltaic devices at low cost due to the unique one-dimensional structure with …

Graphene/Si Schottky solar cells: a review of recent advances and prospects

X Kong, L Zhang, B Liu, H Gao, Y Zhang, H Yan… - RSC …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene has attracted tremendous interest due to its unique physical and chemical
properties. The atomic thickness, high carrier mobility and transparency make graphene an …

Silicon nanostructures for molecular sensing: a review

VS Vendamani, SVSN Rao, AP Pathak… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This review presents a comprehensive synopsis of the recent developments and
achievements in the research of nanosensors composed of plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) …

Hierarchically assembled silver nanoprism-graphene oxide-silicon nanowire arrays for ultrasensitive surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy sensing of atrazine

K Daoudi, M Gaidi, S Columbus, M Shameer… - Materials Science in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploration of novel strategies for fabricating SERS substrates attracted enormous research
potential as achieving high sensitivity, reproducibility along with cost effectiveness is really …

Highly efficient PEDOT: PSS/silicon hybrid solar cells via effective surface microengineering of low-cost solar-grade silicon wafers

A Srivastava, D Sharma, P Kumari… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The organic carrier-selective layer, poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly (styrene
sulfonate)(PEDOT: PSS) coated on Si wafers, has attracted a lot of attention toward the …

Enhanced photocatalytic activities of silicon nanowires/graphene oxide nanocomposite: Effect of etching parameters

M Gaidi, K Daoudi, S Columbus, A Hajjaji… - journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Homogeneous and vertically aligned silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were successfully
fabricated using silver assisted chemical etching technique. The prepared samples were …

Versatile control of metal-assisted chemical etching for vertical silicon microwire arrays and their photovoltaic applications

HD Um, N Kim, K Lee, I Hwang, J Hoon Seo, YJ Yu… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
A systematic study was conducted into the use of metal-assisted chemical etching (MacEtch)
to fabricate vertical Si microwire arrays, with several models being studied for the efficient …

Elucidating the effect of etching time key-parameter toward optically and electrically-active silicon nanowires

M Naffeti, PA Postigo, R Chtourou, MA Zaïbi - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this work, vertically aligned silicon nanowires (SiNWs) with relatively high crystallinity
have been fabricated through a facile, reliable, and cost-effective metal assisted chemical …

Arrays of nano and micro inverted silicon structures via copper catalyzed chemical etching for effective light trapping

A Srivastava, A Saini, JS Tawale, P Pathi… - Materials Science in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nano/micro structuring of silicon (Si) via chemical approaches have currently acquired a lot
of research interests owing to their excellent light trapping abilities in broad spectral range …

Excellent omnidirectional light trapping properties of inverted micro-pyramid structured silicon by copper catalyzed chemical etching

A Srivastava, D Sharma, S Laxmi, JS Tawale, P Pathi… - Optical Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Nano/micro structuring of silicon (Si) attracts a lot of research interests for minimizing the
reflective losses (> 30%) of Si surface limiting the solar cell performance majorly. Here …