title: Transparent nanowire network electrode for textured semiconductors.
abstract: This work presents an inexpensive and easily manufacturable, highly conductive and transparent nanowire network electrode for textured semiconductors. It is based on lines of silver nanoparticles transformed into a nanowire network by microwave or furnace sintering. The nanonetwork electrode on crystalline silicon is demonstrated experimentally, with the nanoparticles self-assembling in the valleys between the pyramids of the textured surface. Optical experiments show that this conductive nanowire network electrode can be essentially 'invisible' when covered with the conventional anti-reflection coating (ARC), and thus could be employed in photovoltaic applications.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Advanced Materials (IAM), South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China. gaojw@scnu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Jinwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Ke
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authors.lastname: Pei
authors.forename: Tianyi
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authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yaohui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Linghai
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authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Weijin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Qinggeng
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authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Michael
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authors.lastname: Giersig
authors.forename: Krzysztof
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authors.lastname: Kempa
authors.forename: Zhifeng
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authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Yang
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authors.lastname: Wang