The Effect of Reaction Time on Optical Trapping Nanostructure Formation on the Multi-Crystalline Silicon by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching

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The surface texturing has been considered as an important process for the high-efficiency solar cell fabrication. A two-step metal-assisted chemical etching method was used to produce light trapping nanostructure on multi-crystalline silicon wafers. And the effect of the reaction time on the optical trapping properties of the nanostructures was investigated. Both the density and the size of Ag particles are highly dependent on the deposition time. The etching time instead of the Ag particle deposition time dominates the reflectance of the nanostructures when the etching time is above 30 s. The lowest spectrum-weighted average reflectance obtained in this study is about 9.2%.

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