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 …

Fabrication of black silicon via metal-assisted chemical etching—a review

MY Arafat, MA Islam, AWB Mahmood, F Abdullah… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) technique is commonly employed for texturing
the wafer surfaces when fabricating black silicon (BSi) solar cells and is considered to be a …

A systematically integrated recycling and upgrading technology for waste crystalline silicon photovoltaic module

X Xu, D Lai, W Wang, Y Wang - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2022 - Elsevier
Efficient resource recovery and reutilization are important for overcoming the immense
challenges associated with waste photovoltaic module management and the limited raw …

[HTML][HTML] Moisture induced degradation in field-aged multicrystalline silicon photovoltaic modules

OK Segbefia, N Akhtar, TO Sætre - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2023 - Elsevier
Moisture ingress is one of the key fault mechanisms responsible for photovoltaic (PV)
devices degradation. Understanding moisture induced degradation (MID) mechanisms in …

Texturing of polydimethylsiloxane surface for anti-reflective films with super-hydrophobicity in solar cell application

H Lee, A Yi, JG Choi, DH Ko, HJ Kim - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
This study utilized a Cu metal assisted chemical etching (MACE) method to produce an anti-
reflection texture on poly dimethyl siloxane (PDMS). We measured the diffuse and total …

Differently shaped Ag crystallites and four current transport paths at sintered Ag/Si interface of crystalline silicon solar cells

B Feng, Y Liu, W Chen, G Xing, X Chen, X Du - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The comprehensive understanding of the Ohmic contact mechanism on the front
metalization is highly desirable for further improvement of crystalline silicon solar cells …

[HTML][HTML] Crystallographic anisotropy of corrosion rate and surface faceting of polycrystalline 90Cu-10Ni in acidic NaCl solution

X Yi, A Ma, L Zhang, Y Zheng - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The orientation-dependent corrosion rate and surface faceting of polycrystalline 90Cu-10Ni
in acidic NaCl solution was investigated statistically. A good linear relationship was found …

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 …

Anisotropic process of Ag nanoparticles embedding into c-Si during high-temperature annealing

YA Zharova, AA Ermina, NS Solodovchenko… - Applied Surface …, 2025 - Elsevier
Embedded silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) into single-crystal silicon (c-Si) were obtained by
galvanic displacement reaction and annealing at 1000° C in H 2 O for 5–180 min. The …

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 …