Sanyo's challenges to the development of high-efficiency HIT solar cells and the expansion of HIT business

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1455-1460

  Maruyama, Eiji ^a   Terakawa, Akira ^a   Taguchi, Mikio ^a   Yoshimine, Yukihiro ^a   Ide, Daisuke ^a   Baba, Toshiaki ^a   Shima, Masaki ^a   Sakata, Hitoshi ^a   Tanaka, Makoto ^a  

^a SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILICON;

HETERO-JUNCTION WITH INTRINSIC THIN (HIT); HIT SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749110246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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