Interdigitated back contact silicon heterojunction solar cell and the effect of front surface passivation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Meijun ^a,b   Bowden, Stuart ^a   Das, Ujjwal ^a   Birkmire, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVATION;

FRONT SURFACE PASSIVATION; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HETEROJUNCTION TECHNOLOGIES; SURFACE PASSIVATION QUALITY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 34547829283     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2768635     Document Type: Article

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