Abundant non-toxic materials for thin film solar cells: Alternative to conventional materials

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2753-2758

  Alharbi, Fahhad ^a   Bass, John D ^b   Salhi, Abdelmajid ^a   Alyamani, Ahmed ^a   Kim, Ho Cheol ^b   Miller, Robert D ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundant materials; Non toxic materials; Thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANT MATERIALS; BINARY MATERIALS; BULK PROPERTIES; CDTE; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS; CU(IN , GA)SE; NON-TOXIC MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SCREENING PROCESS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; GALLIUM; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

FILM; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 79957517417     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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