Low temperature Si/SiOx/pc-Si passivated contacts to n-type Si solar cells

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3448-3452

  Nemeth, Bill ^a   Young, David L ^a   Yuan, Hao Chih ^a   Lasalvia, Vincenzo ^a   Norman, Andrew G ^a   Page, Matthew ^a   Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Stradins, Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

passivated contacts; polysilicon; silicon dioxide; silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; PASSIVATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POLYSILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICA; SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITED; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; LOW TEMPERATURE SILICON DIOXIDES; LOW TEMPERATURES; PROCESSING CONDITION; RECOMBINATION CURRENTS; SI SOLAR CELLS; SPECIFIC CONTACT RESISTIVITY;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84912068481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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