New developments in amorphous thin-film silicon solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2086-2092

  Schropp, Ruud E I ^a,b   Zeman, Miro ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GLASS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS;

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; POLYMER FOIL; ROLL TO ROLL PRODUCTION; THIN FILM SILICON;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033319240     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.792001     Document Type: Article

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