50 μm thin solar cells with 17.0% efficiency

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 704-706

  Reuter, Michael ^a   Brendle, Willi ^a   Tobail, Osama ^a   Werner, Jürgen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Layer transfer; Silicon solar cells; Thin film

Indexed keywords

LAYER TRANSFER; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; NEW PROCESS; SUPERSTRATE; SUPERSTRATES; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; TRANSFER LAYERS;

CELL MEMBRANES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 67349172705     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.09.035     Document Type: Article

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