17.6% Efficient multilayer thin-film silicon solar cells deposited on heavily doped silicon substrates

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 369-373

  Zheng, Guang Fu ^a   Wenham, Stuart R ^a   Green, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYER; CZOCHRALSKI GROWN SILICON SUBSTRATE; ELECTRONICALLY INERT CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC TEMPLATE; HEAVILY DOPED CRYSTALLINE SILICON SUBSTRATES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY CONVERSION; MULTILAYERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM DEVICES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0030235811     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-159X(199609/10)4:5<369::AID-PIP142>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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