Good stability of protocrystalline silicon multilayer solar cells against light irradiation originating from vertically regular distribution of isolated nano-sized silicon grains

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1584-1587

  Myong, Seung Yeop ^a,c   Kwon, Seong Won ^a   Kwak, Joong Hwan ^a   Lim, Koeng Su ^a   Pearce, Joshua M ^b   Konagai, Makoto ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MULTILAYERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SILICON;

LIGHT IRRADIATION; PROTOCRYSTALLINE SILICON MULTILAYER SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749085952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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