UV imprinting for thin film solar cell application

Abstract

UV imprinting is an interesting, low cost technique to produce large area thin film solarcells incorporating nanometric textures. Here, we review and present new resultsconfirming that replicas of the most common textures used in photovoltaics can beobtained by UV imprinting with an excellent fidelity. The use of these replicasas substrates for amorphous and micromorph thin film silicon solar cells is alsoshown, together with a comparison with devices obtained on the original textures.