Substrates, contacts and monolithic integration

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 365-370

  Hegedus, Steven S ^a   Albright, Scot ^b   Jeffrey, Frank ^c   McMahon, T J ^d   Wiedeman, S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Golden Photon Inc   (United States)

^c Iowa Thin Film Technologies   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ITN ENERGY SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; FILM GROWTH; IMPURITIES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM DEVICES;

LASER SCRIBING; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0031221817     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-159X(199709/10)5:5<365::AID-PIP184>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Conference Paper

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