22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Geissbühler, Jonas ^a   Werner, Jérémie ^a   Martin De Nicolas, Silvia ^a   Barraud, Loris ^b   Hessler Wyser, Aïcha ^a   Despeisse, Matthieu ^b   Nicolay, Sylvain ^b   Tomasi, Andrea ^a   Niesen, Bjoern ^a   De Wolf, Stefaan ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; OXIDE FILMS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

ABSORPTION LOSS; AMORPHOUS SILICON FILM; ELECTRODEPOSITED COPPER; FILL FACTOR; HOLE COLLECTOR; METAL CONTACTS; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; WIDE BAND GAP;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84940404085     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4928747     Document Type: Article

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