Large area nanocrystalline silicon based multi-junction solar cells with superior light soaking stability

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1141-1146

  Xu, X ^a   Su, T ^a   Ehlert, S ^a   Pietka, G ^a   Bobela, D ^b   Beglau, D ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Li, Y ^a   Demaggio, G ^a   Worrel, C ^a   Lord, K ^a   Yue, G ^a   Yan, B ^a   Beernink, K ^a   Liu, F ^a   Banerjee, A ^a   Yang, J ^a   Guha, S ^a  

^a UNITED SOLAR OVONIC LLC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK GROWTH; FILM PROPERTIES; GRAIN EVOLUTION; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH DEPOSITION RATES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN DILUTION; LIGHT SOAKING; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; NC-SI:H; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SEED LAYER; SPATIAL UNIFORMITY; STABILIZED EFFICIENCY; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE; THIN FILM SILICON; TRIPLE JUNCTION CELLS;

CRYSTALLITE SIZE; GRAIN GROWTH; METALLIC FILMS; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 78650144697     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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