Designing band offset of a-SiO:H solar cells for very high open-circuit voltage (1.06 V) by adjusting band gap of p-i-n junction

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Hishida, Mitsuoki ^a   Sekimoto, Takeyuki ^a   Terakawa, Akira ^a  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILICON OXIDES; SOLAR CELLS;

BUILT-IN POTENTIAL; ELECTRON CONDUCTIVITY; LAYERED STRUCTURES; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; REFLECTANCE RATIO; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; WIDE BAND GAP; WIDE BANDGAP MATERIALS;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84906877249     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7567/JJAP.53.092301     Document Type: Article

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