Analysis of series resistance losses in a-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1169-1176

  Gogolin, Ralf ^a   Turcu, Mircea ^a   Ferre, Rafel ^a,b   Clemens, Juliane ^a,c   Harder, Nils Peter ^a,d,e   Brendel, Rolf ^a,f   Schmidt, Jan ^f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

^b Manz AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Total New Energies USA ^*  (United States)

^e Sun Power Corporation   (United States)

^f Leibniz Universität Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; series resistance; silicon heterojunction solar cells

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SOLAR CELLS;

A-SI: H/C-SI HETEROJUNCTIONS; DEPOSITION PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; INTERFACE PASSIVATION; SCREEN-PRINTED; SERIES RESISTANCES; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; TEST STRUCTURE;

SILICON;

EID: 84906788585     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2328575     Document Type: Article

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