The wafers were etched in 30 % KOH solution in order to remove the surface layers about
10 µm thick damaged by sawing followed by the texturization in the KOH:IPA:H2O solution. After
this process, the monocrystalline Si wafers with (100) surface orientation were covered by
microscopic pyramids with (111) crystallographic planes. In the case of multicrystalline wafers this
method is not very effective because the crystalline grains have different crystallographic orientation
(Fig. 1a) and the effective reflectance in the range 400 – 1100 nm is only 24 %. A very promising
method of texturization of mc-Si is by acid chemical etching in HF:HNO3:H2O solution [3]. This
method is being developed at IMMS. Fig. 1b shows the micrograph of the mc-Si after acid
texturization for 1 minute