Highly efficient charge transfer in nanocrystalline Si:H solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Kiriluk, K G ^a   Fields, J D ^b   Simonds, B J ^b   Pai, Y P ^b   Miller, P L ^b   Su, T ^c   Yan, B ^c   Yang, J ^c   Guha, S ^c   Madan, A ^d   Shaheen, S E ^e   Taylor, P C ^b   Collins, R T ^b  

^a Abengoa Solar Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c UNITED SOLAR OVONIC LLC   (United States)

^d MVSystems Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASE; AMORPHOUS REGIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE SI; NANOSTRUCTURED FILMS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; SI NANOCRYSTAL; SOLAR CELL DEVICES;

CHARGE TRANSFER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PARAMAGNETISM; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84876130163     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4795940     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. N. S. Lewis, Science 315, 798 (2007). 10.1126/science.1137014
2. G. Crabtree and J. Sarrao, Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2, 287 (2011). 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-062910-140447
3. W. Shockley and H. J. Queisser, J. Appl. Phys. 32, 510 (1961). 10.1063/1.1736034
4. T. T. Ross and A. J. Nozik, J. Appl. Phys. 53, 3813 (1982). 10.1063/1.331124
5. A. P. Alivisatos, Science 271, 933 (1996). 10.1126/science.271.5251.933
6. M. A. Green, Prog. Photovoltaics 9, 123 (2001). 10.1002/pip.360
7. D. Ginley, M. A. Green, and R. Collins, MRS Bull. 33, 355 (2008). 10.1557/mrs2008.71
8. M. A. Green, G. Conibeer, D. Konig, S. Shrestha, H. Shujuan, P. Aliberti, L. Treiber, R. Patterson, B. P. Veettil, A. Hsieh, F. Yu, A. Luque, A. Marti, P. G. Linares, E. Canovas, E. Antolin, D. F. Marron, C. Tablero, E. Hernandez, J. F. Guillemoles, L. Huang, A. Le Bris, T. Schmidt, R. Clady, and M. Tayebjee, in 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) (IEEE, New York, 2010), p. 57.
9. M. Neges, K. Schwarzburg, and F. Willig, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 90, 2107 (2006) 10.1016/j.solmat.2006.02.008.
10. G. Conibeer, N. Ekins-Daukes, J. F. Guillemoles, D. Konig, E. C. Cho, C. W. Jiang, S. Shrestha, and M. Green, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 93, 713 (2009) 10.1016/j.solmat.2008.09.034.
11. G. Conibeer, M. Green, R. Corkish, Y. Cho, E. C. Cho, C. W. Jiang, T. Fangsuwannarak, E. Pink, Y. D. Huang, T. Puzzer, T. Trupke, B. Richards, A. Shalav, and K. L. Lin, Thin Solid Films 511-512, 654 (2006) 10.1016/j.tsf.2005. 12.119.
12. B. Z. Tian, X. L. Zheng, T. J. Kempa, Y. Fang, N. F. Yu, G. H. Yu, J. L. Huang, and C. M. Lieber, Nature 449, 885 (2007). 10.1038/nature06181
13. E. W. McFarland and J. A. Tang, Nature 421, 616 (2003). 10.1038/nature01316
14. A. Pandey and P. Guyot-Sionnest, Science 322, 929 (2008). 10.1126/science.1159832
15. W. A. Tisdale, K. J. Williams, B. A. Timp, D. J. Norris, E. S. Aydil, and X. Y. Zhu, Science 328, 1543 (2010). 10.1126/science.1185509
16. N. M. Gabor, Z. H. Zhong, K. Bosnick, J. Park, and P. L. McEuen, Science 334, 648 (2011). 10.1126/science.1211384
17. E. A. Davis and N. F. Mott, Philos. Mag. 22, 903 (1970). 10.1080/14786437008221061
18. Z. Vardeny and J. Tauc, Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 1223 (1981). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.1223
19. K. Kiriluk, D. Williamson, D. Bobela, C. Taylor, B. Yan, J. Yang, S. Guha, A. Madan, and F. Zhu, MRS Symp. Proc. 1245, 1245-A13-02 (2010) 10.1557/PROC-1245-A13-02.
20. L. Fekete, P. Kuzel, H. Nemec, F. Kadlec, A. Dejneka, J. Stuchlik, and A. Fejfar, Phys. Rev. B 79, 115306 (2009). 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.115306
21. A. Marti, L. Cuadra, and A. Luque, in Twenty-Eighth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (IEEE, New York, 2000), p. 940.
22. C. Tsang and R. A. Street, Phys. Rev. B 19, 3027 (1979). 10.1103/PhysRevB.19.3027
23. T. Merdzhanova, R. Carius, S. Klein, F. Finger, and D. Dimova-Malinovska, Thin Solid Films 511-512, 394 (2006) 10.1016/j.tsf.2005.12.114.
24. Y. Horikoshi, A. Fischer, and K. Ploog, Phys. Rev. B 31, 7859 (1985). 10.1103/PhysRevB.31.7859
25. M. M. de Lima, Jr., P. C. Taylor, S. Morrison, A. LeGeune, and F. C. Marques, Phys. Rev. B 65, 235324-1 -6 (2002). 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.235324
26. W. Fuhs, P. Kanschat, and K. Lips, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 18, 1792 (2000). 10.1116/1.591473
27. E. I. Levin, S. Marianer, and B. I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. B 45, 5906 (1992). 10.1103/PhysRevB.45.5906
28. A. Rothwarf, Appl. Phys. Lett. 40, 694 (1982). 10.1063/1.93238
29. K. M. Wrabac and J. Tauc, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3682 (1992). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3682
30. J. O. White, S. Cuzeau, D. Hulin, and R. Vanderhaghen, J. Appl. Phys. 84, 4984 (1998). 10.1063/1.368744
31. M. R. Bergren, B. J. Simonds, B. Yan, G. Yue, R. Ahrenkiel, T. E. Furtak, R. T. Collins, P. C. Taylor, and M. C. Beard, Phys. Rev. B 87, 081301(R) (2013). 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.081301
32. C. Spinella, S. Lombardo, and F. Priolo, J. Appl. Phys. 84, 5383-5414 (1998). 10.1063/1.368873