Optimization of thin film silicon solar cells on highly textured substrates

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 208, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1863-1868

  Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Battaglia, Corsin ^a   Boccard, Mathieu ^a   Bugnon, Gregory ^a   Charrière, Mathieu ^a   Cuony, Peter ^a   Hänni, Simon ^a   Löfgren, Linus ^a   Meillaud, Fanny ^a   Parascandolo, Gaetano ^a   Söderström, Thomas ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

amorphous silicon; junctions; microcrystalline silicon; solar cells; tandem cells; thin films

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); BOTTOM CELLS; CELL DESIGN; CELL EFFICIENCY; DEPOSITION PROCESS; DOPED LAYERS; INTRINSIC LAYER; LIGHT-TRAPPING; NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON; ROUGH SUBSTRATES; SEM IMAGE; SINGLE-JUNCTION CELLS; STABILIZED EFFICIENCY; SUBSTRATE TEXTURE; TANDEM CELLS; TANDEM CONFIGURATION; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 80051700075     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201026745     Document Type: Review

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