Survey of dopant-free carrier-selective contacts for silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn 2016-November, Issue , 2016, Pages 210-214

  Bullock, James ^a,b   Wan, Yimao ^b   Hettick, Mark ^a   Geissbuhler, Jonas ^c   Ong, Alison J ^a   Kiriya, Daisuke ^a   Yan, Di ^b   Allen, Thomas ^b   Peng, Jun ^b   Zhang, Xinyu ^b   Sutter Fella, Carolin M ^a   De Wolf, Stefaan ^c   Ballif, Christophe ^c   Cuevas, Andres ^b   Javey, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); OHMIC CONTACTS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SURVEYS;

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; DOPANT-FREE; METAL OXIDES; METAL SALT; P-TYPE; SELECTIVE CONTACTS; TEST STRUCTURE;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85003666737     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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