Multijunction solar cell designs using silicon bottom subcell and porous silicon compliant membrane

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1125-1131

  Wilkins, Matthew M ^a   Boucherif, Abderraouf ^b   Beal, Richard ^a   Haysom, Joan E ^a   Wheeldon, Jeffrey F ^a   Aimez, Vincent ^b   Arès, Richard ^b   Hall, Trevor J ^a   Hinzer, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compliant membrane; multijunction; porous; silicon; solar cell

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT LAYER; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; DISLOCATION DENSITIES; MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; MULTIJUNCTION; POROUS; POROUS SILICON LAYERS; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 84880230554     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2261931     Document Type: Article

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