Pulsed-laser hyperdoping and surface texturing for photovoltaics

MRS Bulletin

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 439-455

  Sher, Meng Ju ^a   Winkler, Mark T ^b   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic structure; metal insulator transition; microstructure; Photovoltaic; rapid solidification

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTANCE; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; INTERMEDIATE BANDS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NON-EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SURFACE-TEXTURING;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; PULSED LASERS; RAPID SOLIDIFICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 79960138109     PISSN: 08837694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2011.111     Document Type: Review

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