Light Scattering Structures for Thin-Film Solar Cells and Methods of Making the Same

Aaron Ptak; Kevin Schulte; John Simon

Light Scattering Structures for Thin-Film Solar Cells and Methods of Making the Same

Aaron Ptak (Inventor)
, Kevin Schulte (Inventor)
, John Simon (Inventor)

Chemistry and Nanoscience

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Research output: Patent

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method that includes contacting a surface of a first layer that includes a Group III element and a Group V element with a gas that includes HCl, where the first layer is positioned in thermal contact with a wafer positioned in a chamber of a reactor, and the contacting results in a roughening of the surface.

Original language	American English
Patent number	11,177,402 B2
Filing date	16/11/21
State	Published - 2021

NLR Publication Number

NREL/PT-5900-81508

Keywords

Group III element
Group V element
phosphorus

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