On the effect of the film hydrogen content and deposition type on the grain nucleation and grain growth during crystallization of A-SI:H films

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1612-1615

  Mahan, A H ^a   Ahrenkiel, S P ^a   Roy, B ^b   Schropp, R E I ^c   Li, H ^c   Ginley, D S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITES; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; GRAIN GROWTH; NUCLEATION; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLITE NUCLEATION RATE; FILM HYDROGEN CONTENTS; GRAIN DENSITY;

HYDROGEN;

EID: 41749118281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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