Thin macroporous silicon heterojunction solar cells

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 187-189

  Ernst, Marco ^a   Brendel, Rolf ^a,b   Ferré, Rafel ^a   Harder, Nils Peter ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterojunctions; Kerf free technologies; Layer transfer; Macroporous silicon; Monocrystalline wafers; Thin films

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SI; CONDUCTIVE LAYER; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LAYER STACKS; LAYER TRANSFER; MACRO POROUS SILICON; MONOCRYSTALLINE; MONOCRYSTALLINE WAFERS; PORE WALL; REAR SIDE; SILICON OXIDE LAYERS; STRAIGHT PORES;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON WAFERS; THIN FILMS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 84860663845     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201206113     Document Type: Article

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