Skin care for healthy silicon solar cells

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Cuevas, Andres ^a   Allen, Thomas ^a   Bullock, James ^a   Wan, Yimao ^a   Yan, Di ^a   Zhang, Xinyu ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

passivated contacts; selective contacts; Silicon solar cells; surface passivation

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); PASSIVATION; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; RECOMBINATION LOSS; SELECTIVE CONTACTS; SURFACE PASSIVATION; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84961566828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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