Amorphous silicon carbide/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells: A comprehensive study of the photocarrier collection

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3926-3932

  Van Cleef, Maarten W M ^a   Rubinelli, Francisco A ^a   Rizzoli, Rita ^b   Pinghini, Roberto ^b   Schropp, Ruud E I ^a   Van Der Weg, Werner F ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon carbide; Collection; Crystalline silicon; Heterojunction; Photocarriers

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON CARBIDE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 0032118875     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.37.3926     Document Type: Article

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