Magnesium Fluoride Electron-Selective Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 14671-14677

  Wan, Yimao ^a   Samundsett, Chris ^a   Bullock, James ^a,b   Allen, Thomas ^a   Hettick, Mark ^b   Yan, Di ^a   Zheng, Peiting ^a   Zhang, Xinyu ^a   Cui, Jie ^a   McKeon, Josephine ^a   Javey, Ali ^b   Cuevas, Andres ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

electron selective contact; magnesium fluoride; Ohmic contact; silicon solar cell; surface passivation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONTACTORS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CONTACT RECOMBINATIONS; CONTACT RESISTIVITIES; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; MAGNESIUM FLUORIDE; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; SELECTIVE CONTACTS; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84975105583     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03599     Document Type: Article

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