Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Crystalline Si-SiGe Hétéro structure Thin-Film Solar Cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2103-2110

  Said, Khalid ^a,b   Poortmans, Jozef ^a   Caymax, Matty ^a   Nijs, Johan F ^a   Debarge, Luc ^a   Christoffel, Eric ^a   Slaoui, Abdelilah ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

Heterostructure; Sige; Thin film cell

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

DARK SATURATION CURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON GERMANIUM; THIN FILM CELL;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0033330057     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.792004     Document Type: Article

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