Substrate and back contact effects in CIGS devices on steel foil

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 716-719

  Batchelor, W K ^a   Beck, M E ^a   Huntington, R ^a   Repins, I L ^b   Rockett, A ^c   Shafarman, W N ^d   Hasoon, F S ^e   Britt, J S ^a  

^a Global Solar Energy Inc   (United States)

^b ITN Energy Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Institute for Energy Conversion   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DEPOSITION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; FINISHING; METAL FOIL; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STEEL; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BACK CONTACT EFFECTS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; SODA LIME GLASS SUBSTRATES; SODIUM OUT DIFFUSION; STEEL FOIL; SURFACE FINISHING;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 0036953418     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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