Polycrystalline thin-film photovoltaics: From the laboratory to solar fields

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 384-387

  Von Roedern, Bolko ^a   Ullal, Harin S ^a   Zweibel, Ken ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) MODULES; POLYCRYSTALLINE THIN-FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 41749103790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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