Sputtered metal oxide broken gap junctions for tandem solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 515-522

  Johnson, Forrest ^a   Song, Sang Ho ^a   Abrahamson, Joel ^b   Liptak, Richard ^a   Aydil, Eray ^b   Campbell, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction; Solar energy; Sputtering; Transparent conducting oxide; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COPPER METALLOGRAPHY; COPPER OXIDES; ELECTRON AFFINITY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALS; OXIDE MINERALS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPUTTERING; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; ZINC OXIDE;

AS-DEPOSITED FILMS; CONDUCTIVE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GALLIUM SELENIDES; LOW TEMPERATURES; POST DEPOSITION ANNEALING; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; SPECIFIC RESISTIVITIES; TANDEM SOLAR CELLS;

GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84908509863     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.09.042     Document Type: Article

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