Silicon heterojunction solar cell: A new buffer layer concept with low-temperature epitaxial silicon

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1818-1824

  Centurioni, Emanuele ^a   Iencinella, Daniele ^a   Rizzoli, Rita ^a   Zignani, Flavio ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MIXTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BUFFER LAYER CONCEPT; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 8344260692     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2004.836801     Document Type: Article

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