Silicon heterojunction solar cells with electron selective TiOx contact

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 150, Issue , 2016, Pages 32-38

  Yang, Xinbo ^a   Zheng, Peiting ^a   Bi, Qunyu ^a   Weber, Klaus ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carrier selective contact; Heterojunctions; Solar cells; Titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

CONTACT RESISTIVITIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING; HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON SOLAR CELLS; N TYPE SILICON; SELECTIVE CONTACTS; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON SURFACES; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84958745354     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.01.020     Document Type: Article

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