Amorphous silicon-germanium for triple and quadruple junction thin-film silicon based solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 133, Issue , 2015, Pages 163-169

  Schüttauf, Jan Willem ^a   Niesen, Bjoern ^a   Löfgren, Linus ^a   Bonnet Eymard, Maximilien ^a   Stuckelberger, Michael ^a   Hänni, Simon ^a   Boccard, Mathieu ^a   Bugnon, Grégory ^a   Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Haug, Franz Josef ^a   Meillaud, Fanny ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alloyed materials; Light management; Multijunctions; Silicon germanium; Thin film Si

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914128883     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.11.006     Document Type: Article

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