Investigation of the emitter band gap widening of heterojunction solar cells by use of hydrogenated amorphous carbon silicon alloys

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Mueller, T ^a   Duengen, W ^a   Ma, Y ^a,b   Job, R ^a   Scherff, M ^a   Fahrner, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OPTICAL BAND GAPS; OPTICAL LOSSES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON ALLOYS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

ELECTRICAL DEFECTS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION;

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS;

EID: 35348914333     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2785012     Document Type: Article

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