Integration of solar cells on top of CMOS chips part I: A-Si solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2014-2021

  Lu, Jiwu ^a   Kovalgin, Alexey Y ^a   Van Der Werf, Karine H M ^b   Schropp, Ruud E I ^b   Schmitz, Jurriaan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Above integrated circuit (IC); amorphous Si (a Si); complementary metaloxidesemiconductor (CMOS); energy harvesting; energy scavenging; monolithic integration; photovoltaic (PV) cells; solar cells; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ABOVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC); AMORPHOUS SI (A-SI); COMPLEMENTARY METALOXIDESEMICONDUCTOR (CMOS); ENERGY SCAVENGING; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ENERGY HARVESTING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 79959521956     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2143716     Document Type: Article

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