Advanced manufacturing concepts for crystalline silicon solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1948-1969

  Nijs, Johan F ^a   Szlufcik, Jozef ^a   Poortmans, Jozef ^b   Sivoththaman, S ^b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COSTS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; PRODUCTION COST; SILICON FEEDBACK;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033356996     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.791983     Document Type: Article

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