Solar energy harnessing in hexagonally arranged Si nanowire arrays and effects of array symmetry on optical characteristics

• Main Authors: Li, Junshuai, Yu, Hongyu, Li, Yali
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97517; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10638
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Investigation of solar energy harvesting in hexagonally arranged Si nanowire (NW) arrays is performed through optimizing the structural parameters, such as array periodicity (P), Si NW diameter (D) and length (L). The results demonstrate that there exist wide P and D/P 'windows' for the Si...