Metastability in hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon solar cells

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1128-1137

  Yue, Guozhen ^a   Yan, Baojie ^a   Ganguly, Gautam ^a   Yang, Jeffrey ^a   Guha, Subhendu ^a  

^a UNITED SOLAR OVONIC LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ENERGY GAP; HYDROGENATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTIMIZATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

HYDROGENATED NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; PHOTON ENERGY; SINGLE-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 34250163482     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0144     Document Type: Article

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