Very thin, highly-conductive ZnO: Al front electrode on textured glass as substrate for thin-film silicon solar cells

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-47

  Neubert, Sebastian ^a   Ring, Sven ^a   Welker, Florian ^a   Götzendörfer, Stefan ^b   Ruske, Florian ^a   Stannowski, Bernd ^a   Schlatmann, Rutger ^a   Rech, Bernd ^a  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Berliner Glas Surface Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Silicon; Solar cells; Transparent conducting oxides; ZnO

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; CLASSICAL APPROACH; LIGHT-TRAPPING; THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; ZNO; ZNO:AL;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; GLASS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84892841932     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201308195     Document Type: Article

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