Optimization of interdigitated back contact silicon heterojunction solar cells: Tailoring hetero-interface band structures while maintaining surface passivation

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 326-338

  Lu, Meijun ^a,b   Das, Ujjwal ^a   Bowden, Stuart ^a,c   Hegedus, Steven ^a   Birkmire, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

hetero interface band alignment; interdigitated back contact; silicon heterojunction solar cell; surface passivation; two dimensional simulation

Indexed keywords

BAND ALIGNMENTS; INTERDIGITATED BACK CONTACTS; SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; SURFACE PASSIVATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

ALIGNMENT; AMORPHOUS SILICON; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; BUFFER LAYERS; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

PASSIVATION;

EID: 79953655845     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1032     Document Type: Article

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