Organic-silicon heterojunction solar cells on n-type silicon wafers: The BackPEDOT concept

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-116

  Zielke, Dimitri ^a   Pazidis, Alexandra ^a   Werner, Florian ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a,b  

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

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterojunction Organic silicon; PEDOT:PSS; Saturation current density; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PASSIVATION; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

HIGH SERIES RESISTANCES; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; PEDOT:PSS; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); SATURATION CURRENT DENSITIES; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON JUNCTION; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84908412381     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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