Zinc oxide and silicon based heterojunction solar cell model

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hussain, Babar ^a   Ebong, Abasifreke ^a   Ferguson, Ian ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction; MOCVD; PC1D; silicon; solar cell; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METALLIC FILMS; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC;

ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE LAYERS; FILL FACTOR; GROWTH WINDOW; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; P-N JUNCTION FORMATION; PC1D; PC1D SIMULATIONS; SILICON-BASED;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84961615959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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