Transparent Conducting Oxides for Photovoltaics

Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 716-796

  Delahoy, Alan E ^a   Guo, Sheyu ^b  

^a New Millennium Solar Equipment Corp   (United States)

^b Wujiang Hi Tech Park   (China)

Author keywords

Best TCO films, in unstable transition mode active feedback, maintaining favorable intermediate target state; Optical transmission, function of wavelength for doped TCO; Photovoltaic arena, thin film solar cells and TCO, as current collecting electrode; TCO optical properties; TCO thin films, from binary compounds, ternary compounds and multicomponent oxides; TCO high resistivity layer and other bilayer concepts TCO high resistivity layer combinations; Thin film CdTe devices, heterojunctions with CdS as n type junction partner; Transparent conducting oxides for photovoltaics; Transparent conductive oxides prepared by deposition techniques; Transparent conductors, materials thin films, optical transmission and electrical conductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855595828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470974704.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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