@inproceedings{a52782dbb089473dadf7935e68dbe61c,
title = "Modulated surface texturing of temporary Al foils substrates for high-efficiency thin-film, flexible solar cells",
abstract = "In this work we focus on texturing Al substrate in order to employ the modulated surface texturing approach for thin-film, flexible, micromorph solar cells. We deployed two different methods to induce micro-craters in Al foil, i) bare Al etching by KOH and ii) AZO sacrificial layer etched in KOH. After modelling the etching kinetics of KOH on Al, we characterized the 2D correlation length and rms roughness of these samples and find the optimal aspect ratio of 12% to deposit high-quality 3 µm-thick nc-Si. Finally, excellent angular scattering properties have been measured for both employed methods.",
keywords = "Al substrate, etching, flexible, thin-film solar cells",
author = "Gianluca Limodio and Davide Bartesaghi and Maurice Hietkamp and Devika Rajagopal and Sajith Nawaratne and Edward Hamers and Arno Smets",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9300722",
language = "English",
series = "Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)",
pages = "453--456",
booktitle = "2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2020",
address = "United States",
note = "47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, PVSC 2020 ; Conference date: 15-06-2020 Through 21-08-2020",
}