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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Photoenergy Volume 2012, Article ID 743608, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/743608 Research Article Surface Texturing with Hemispherical Cavities to Improve Efficiency in Silicon Solar Cells D. W. de Lima Monteiro,1 F. P. Honorato,2 R. F. de Oliveira Costa,1 and L. P. Salles1 1 OptMA Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antonio Carlos, 6627, ˆ 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 2 Secretaria Municipal de Obras e Infraestrutura, Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte, Avenida do Contorno, 5454, 30110-100 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Correspondence should be addressed to D. W. de Lima Monteiro, davies@ufmg.br Received 31 August 2011; Revised 3 November 2011; Accepted 14 November 2011 Academic Editor: Stephen Bremner Copyright © 2012 D. W. de Lima Monteiro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Improvement of solar-cell efficiency at a minimum possible cost addition is constantly sought, and this is often achieved at incremental percentage steps. Among a number of alternatives, antireflective coatings and surface texturing are the most prominent. This paper presents an alternative texturing method of crystalline silicon in an attempt to improve the efficiency of photon transmission through the surface and collection in the bulk. The method relies on anisotropic etching of bulk silicon and requires only a single oxide mask and t