The Terawatt Challenge for Thin Film Photovoltaics

Thin Film Solar Cells Fabrication, Characterization and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 427-462

  Zweibel, Ken ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance of module (BOM); CIS technology; Coal and biomass CO2 sequestration scenario; Coal sequestration approach; Physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approaches; Shunt curing and photolithography; Staebler Wronski Effect; Thin film module bottom up analysis cost; Thin film photovoltaic (PV) and 'Terawatt (TW) Challenge'

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

BOTTOM-UP ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); CIS TECHNOLOGIES; CO2 SEQUESTRATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC; STAEBLER-WRONSKI EFFECT;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84937413692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470091282.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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