Engineering thin film β-FeSi2/Si heterojunctions to harvest solar energy

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1661-1665

  Liew, S L ^a   Chai, Y ^a   Tan, H R ^a   Hui, H K ^a   Chi, D Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

FeSi2 Si heterojunction; Magnetron sputtering; Photovoltaics; Thin film

Indexed keywords

AL-CONCENTRATION; CO-SPUTTERED FILMS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACE QUALITY; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SI (001) SUBSTRATE; SPECTRAL RESPONSE MEASUREMENTS;

ALUMINUM; COMPOSITE FILMS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84890659513     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201300352     Document Type: Article

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