Limits to the efficiency of silicon multilayer thin film solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 41-42, Issue , 1996, Pages 3-17

  Wenham, S R ^a   Green, M A ^a   Edmiston, S ^a   Campbell, P ^a   Koschier, L ^a   Honsberg, C B ^a   Sproul, A B ^a   Thorpe, D ^a   Shi, Z ^a   Heiser, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LIGHT ABSORPTION; MULTILAYERS; NUCLEATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; THIN FILMS;

DARK SATURATION CURRENT; LIGHT TRAPPING; OPTICAL PATH LENGTH; UNITY COLLECTION PROBABILITIES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0030172397     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-0248(95)00116-6     Document Type: Article

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