Influence of interface morphologies on amorphous silicon thin film solar cells prepared on randomly textured substrates

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 182-189

  Jovanov, V ^a   Xu, X ^b   Shrestha, S ^a   Schulte, M ^b   Hupkes J ^b   Zeman, M ^c   Knipp, D ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon solar cells; Back contact morphology; Light trapping; Randomly textured substrate; Surface prediction

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON FILM; AMORPHOUS SILICON THIN FILMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); BACK CONTACT; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GAIN INSIGHT; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; INPUT DATAS; INTERFACE MORPHOLOGIES; LIGHT-TRAPPING; SILICON THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE PREDICTION; SURFACE TEXTURES; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FILM PREPARATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MORPHOLOGY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84874050175     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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