The role of the spray pyrolysed Al2O3 barrier layer in achieving high efficiency solar cells on flexible steel substrates

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 407-413

  Gledhill, Sophie E ^a   Zykov, Anton ^a   Rissom, Thorsten ^a   Caballero, Raquel ^a   Kaufmann, Christian A ^a   Fischer, Christian Herbert ^a   Lux Steiner, Martha ^a   Efimova, Varvara ^b   Hoffmann, Volker ^b   Oswald, Steffen ^b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER LAYERS; ABSORBER MATERIAL; ALUMINIUM OXIDE; BARRIER LAYERS; CHALCOPYRITE SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DIFFUSION OF IRON; FLEXIBLE STEEL; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; LAYER DEPOSITION; LIGHT WEIGHT; METAL SUBSTRATE; PHOTOVOLTAIC MARKETS; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESS; ROUGH SUBSTRATES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SOLAR MODULE; THIN BARRIER LAYERS;

COPPER COMPOUNDS; DESCALING; DIFFUSION BARRIERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPRAY PYROLYSIS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 79959248993     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-010-6176-0     Document Type: Article

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