Carrier-selective, passivated contacts for high efficiency silicon solar cells based on transparent conducting oxides

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-5A

  Young, David L ^a   Nemeth, William ^a   Grover, Sachit ^a   Norman, Andrew ^a   Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Stradins, Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ITO; passivated contacts; silicon; SiO2; solar cells

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICA; SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; TIN DIOXIDE; TIN OXIDES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES;

CONTACT RESISTIVITIES; HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON SOLAR CELLS; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; RECOMBINATION PARAMETERS; SIO2; SPECIFIC CONTACT RESISTIVITY; TIN DOPED INDIUM OXIDE; TRANSMISSION LINE METHODS;

PASSIVATION;

EID: 84912086989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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