Analysis of lateral transport through the inversion layer in amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Filipič, Miha ^a   Holman, Zachary C ^b   Smole, Franc ^a   De Wolf, Stefaan ^b   Ballif, Christophe ^b   Topič, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LASER-BEAM-INDUCED CURRENTS; LATERAL CONDUCTIVITY; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; VALENCE BAND OFFSETS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; INVERSION LAYERS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84883275178     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4818709     Document Type: Article

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