Exfoliated thin, flexible monocrystalline germanium heterojunction solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2578-2582

  Onyegam, Emmanuel U ^a   Sarkar, Dabraj ^b   Hilali, Mohamed ^a   Saha, Sayan ^b   Rao, Rajesh ^b   Mathew, Leo ^b   Jawarani, Dharmesh ^b   James, William ^a   Mantey, Jason ^a   Ainom, Moses ^b   Garcia, Ricardo ^a   Banerjee, Sanjay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b AstroWatt Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Germanium; heterojunction; photovoltaic cells

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; EXFOLIATION PROCESS; FILL FACTOR; HETEROJUNCTION CELLS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); MONOCRYSTALLINE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PASSIVATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 84869481833     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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