The use of porous silicon layers in thin-film silicon solar cells

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 208, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1433-1439

  Van Hoeymissen, Jan ^a   Depauw, Valerie ^a   Kuzma Filipek, Izabela ^a   Van Nieuwenhuysen, Kris ^a   Payo, Maria Recaman ^a   Qiu, Yu ^a   Gordon, Ivan ^a   Poortmans, Jef ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bragg reflector; epifree; layer transfer process; porous silicon; silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

CELL PROCESS; CRYSTALLINE SI; EPIFREE; EPITAXIALLY GROWN; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; LARGE-AREA SOLAR CELLS; LAYER TRANSFER PROCESS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; MANUFACTURING COST; ORDERED MACROPOROUS; POROUS SILICON LAYERS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SI LAYER; SI SOLAR CELLS; SI SUBSTRATES; SI-BASED; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PASSIVATION; REFLECTION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 79959257892     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201000103     Document Type: Article

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