Variation in absorber layer defect density in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon thin film solar cells with 2MeV electron bombardment

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 51, Issue 2 PART 1, 2012, Pages

  Smirnov, Vladimir ^a   Astakhov, Oleksandr ^a   Carius, Reinhard ^a   Petrusenko, Yuri ^b   Borysenko, Valeriy ^b   Finger, Friedhelm ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b KHARKOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-MEV ELECTRON; A-SI:H; ABSORBER LAYERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; THERMAL-ANNEALING; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; SILICON;

DEFECT DENSITY;

EID: 84857322818     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.51.022301     Document Type: Article

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