Stability of amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunctions

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bowden, Stuart ^a   Das, Ujjwal ^a   Herasimenka, Stanislau ^a   Birkmire, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); DEVICE FABRICATIONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; STAEBLER-WRONSKI EFFECT; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PASSIVATION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84879698100     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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