Effect of electron damage on silicon solar cells coated with diamond-like carbon films

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 571-578

  Appelbaum, Joseph ^a   Croitoru, Nathan ^a   Klibanov, Lev ^a   Scheinman, David ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; DEGRADATION; DIAMOND LIKE CARBON FILMS; HARDNESS; IRRADIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPARENCY;

ABRASIVE RESISTANCE; ELECTRON DAMAGE EFFECT;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0034314140     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-159X(200011/12)8:6<571::AID-PIP329>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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