Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells Combining an a-Si:H (n) Electron-collector with a PEDOT:PSS Hole-collector

Energy Procedia

Volumn 92, Issue , 2016, Pages 638-643

  Gogolin, Ralf ^a   Zielke, Dimitri ^a   Lövenich, Wilfried ^b   Sauer, Rüdiger ^b   Schmidt, Jan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

^b Chempark Leverkusen   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

heterojunction; interface preparation; organic silicon junction; PEDOT:PSS

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTRON COLLECTORS; HETEROJUNCTION CELLS; HOLE SELECTIVE LAYERS; INTERFACE PREPARATION; PEDOT:PSS; SERIES RESISTANCE VALUES; SILICON HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON JUNCTION;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 85014422249     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.07.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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