Role of front contact work function on amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cell performance

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 177-179

  Centurioni, Emanuele ^a   Iencinella, Daniele ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amorphous materials; Photovoltaic cells; Semi conductor heterojunctions; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POISSON EQUATION; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CRYSTALLINE SILICON; FRONT CONTACT WORK FUNCTION; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; THIN EMITTER LAYER; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE;

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0037600573     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2003.811405     Document Type: Letter

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