Amorphous silicon oxide window layers for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Peter Seif, Johannes ^a   Descoeudres, Antoine ^a,c   Filipič, Miha ^b   Smole, Franc ^b   Topič, Marko ^b   Charles Holman, Zachary ^a,d   De Wolf, Stefaan ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c CSEM   (Switzerland)

^d AZ 85281   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON FILM; AMORPHOUS/CRYSTALLINE INTERFACE; CARRIER EXTRACTION; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; INTERFACE PASSIVATION; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; VALENCE BAND OFFSETS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84892402599     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861404     Document Type: Article

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