Silicon solar cells with nano-crystalline silicon down shifter: Experiment and modeling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7772, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jestin, Yoann ^a   Pucker, Georg ^a   Ghulinyan, Mher ^a   Ferrario, Lorenza ^a   Bellutti, Pierluigi ^a   Picciotto, Antonio ^a   Collini, Amos ^a   Marconi, Alessandro ^b   Anopchenko, Aleksei ^b   Yuan, Zhizhong ^b   Pavesi, Lorenzo ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modeling; PECVD; Photoluminescence; Power conversion efficiency; Silicon nanocrystals; Silicon rich oxide; Silicon solar cells; Spectral down shifting

Indexed keywords

MODELING; PECVD; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON RICH OXIDE; SPECTRAL DOWN SHIFTING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; ENERGY CONVERSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PASSIVATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

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EID: 77957826820     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.861978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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