Resistive interlayer for improved performance of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrate

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Despeisse, M ^a   Bugnon, G ^a   Feltrin, A ^a   Stueckelberger, M ^a   Cuony, P ^a   Meillaud, F ^a   Billet, A ^a   Ballif, C ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; BACK CONTACT; CURRENT DRAIN; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FILL FACTOR; LIGHT-TRAPPING; ROUGH SUBSTRATES; SILICON LAYER; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM DEVICES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77249132337     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3324704     Document Type: Article

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