Junction transport in epitaxial film silicon heterojunction solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 003349-003352

  Young, David L ^a   Li, Jian V ^a   Teplin, Charles W ^a   Stradins, Paul ^a   Branz, Howard M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SI; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; EPITAXIAL SI; FORWARD VOLTAGE; LOW TEMPERATURES; SEED LAYER; SI WAFER; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT PHYSICS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PHYSICS; SILICON;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84861065029     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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