Evaluation of minority carrier lifetime in BaSi2 as a novel material for earth-abundant high efficiency thin film solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2984-2986

  Usami, Noritaka ^a   Saito, Takanobu ^b   Nomura, Akiko ^a   Shishido, Toetsu ^a   Suemasu, Takashi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY TIME; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MICROWAVE PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; MINORITY CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; NOVEL MATERIALS; PHOTO-CARRIERS; SI (1 1 1); SI SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CARRIER LIFETIME; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650158706     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614167     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. 2 thin films on Si substrates grown by molecular beam epitaxy," Thin Solid Films, vol. 508, pp. 363-366, Jun 2006.
2. Y. Imai, et al., "Electronic structures of semiconducting alkaline-earth metal silicides," Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 358, pp. 257-263, Aug 2003.
3. W. Shockley and H. J. Queisser, "DETAILED BALANCE LIMIT OF EFFICIENCY OF P-N JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 32, pp. 510-519, 1961.
4. 2," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 2-Letters & Express Letters, vol. 45, pp. L390-L392, Apr 2006.
5. 2," Thin Solid Films, vol. 515, pp. 8216- 8218, Aug 2007.
6. 2 by alloying with Ca or Sr based on the electronic structure calculations," Thin Solid Films, vol. 515, pp. 8219-8225, Aug 2007.
7. 2 films grown by molecular beam epitaxy," Thin Solid Films, vol. 515, pp. 8242-8245, Aug 2007.
8. 2 with impurities grown by molecular beam epitaxy," Applied Physics Express, vol. 1, May 2008.
9. 2," Intermetallics, vol. 15, pp. 1291-1296, Oct 2007.
10. 2/Si structure by Kelvin probe and current-voltage characteristics," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 2-Letters & Express Letters, vol. 45, pp. L519-L521, Jun 2006.
11. 2/p+-Si tunnel junction for high efficiency thin-film solar cells ", to be presented in this conference.