Characterization of evaporated solid-phase crystallized silicon thin-film solar cells on glass

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 000445-000449

  Liu, Fude ^a   Romero, M J ^a   Jones, K M ^a   Kunz, O ^b   Wong, J ^b   Reedy, R C ^a   Aberle, A G ^b,c   Al Jassim, M M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EVA SOLAR CELLS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; IMPURITY LEVEL; LIGHT-TRAPPING; LIMITING FACTORS; METALLIZATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POLY-SI FILMS; POLY-SI THIN FILM; SOLID-PHASE; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYSILICON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 77951540348     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411644     Document Type: Conference Paper

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