A membrane device for substrate-free photovoltaic characterization of quantum dot based p-i-n solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 3124-3129

  Löper, Philipp ^a   Stüwe, David ^a   Künle, Matthias ^a,d   Bivour, Martin ^a   Reichel, Christian ^a   Neubauer, Rainer ^a   Schnabel, Manuel ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Eibl, Oliver ^b   Janz, Stefan ^a   Zacharias, Margit ^c   Glunz, Stefan W ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

silicon carbide; silicon nanocrystals; silicon quantum dots; solar cells; solid phase crystallization

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEMBRANE DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC POTENTIALS; PIN DIODE; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON QUANTUM DOTS; SOLID PHASE CRYSTALLIZATION; SUBSTRATE-FREE; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLAR CELLS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE; QUANTUM DOT; SILICON DIOXIDE; TIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84862175142     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201200539     Document Type: Article

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