Thin-film silicon cells
Development of high band gap protocrystalline material for p-i-n thin film silicon solar cells
... classical cells made from crystalline silicon wafers (monocrystalline or poly- crystalline), the electron/hole pairs created by absorption of the photons are collected by diffusion towards the two ...
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THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS
... The main authors of Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells are Christophe Ballif, Wolfhard Beyer, Friedhelm Finger, Horst Schade, Arvind Shah, and Nicolas Wyrsch, with additional contributions [r] ...
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Passivation of thin film silicon solar cells
... In general, each source of electric energy somehow impacts the surrounding environment, there is no exception also in the case of renewable energy resources. Hydro energy has a negative impact on fishes and other beings ...
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Aspects of Silicon Solar Cells: Thin-Film Cells and LPCVD Silicon Nitride
... on silicon is shown to result in a large drop in eective ...a thin oxide is present, it is shown that a high temperature nitrogen anneal results in a reduction in surface passivation, but does not ...
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Liquid phase epitaxy of silicon for thin film silicon solar cells
... Since in practice the achievement of light trapping comes at the expense of either reduced material quality (eg. deposition of silicon on a foreign substrate) or increased complexity [r] ...
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Absorption enhancement in thin-film silicon solar cells
... Based on the summary of the existing literature regarding the limits of light absorption and efficiency in solar cells, which is presented in chapter 4, it seems that light absorption in [r] ...
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High-temperature CVD silicon films for crystalline silicon thin-film solar cells
... Solar cells were prepared according to the following sequence: deposition of diffusion barrier layer, silicon seeding layer deposition, zone-melting recrystallization, epitaxy of the base and solar cell ...
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Sinusoidal nanotextures for light management in silicon thin film solar cells
... in silicon thin-film solar cells ...of thin wafer quality crystalline silicon layers on low-cost glass substrates enabling conversion efficiencies up to ...a thin ...
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Microcrystalline SiGe Absorber Layers in Thin-film Silicon Solar Cells
... of thin microcrystalline silicon-germanium absorbers in thin-film silicon solar cells has been ...resulting film was estimated which stays in good agreement with EDX ...
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Thin Film Silicon for Implantable Electronics
... Because vision is created via a complex process signal transduction and transmission that requires the cooperation of numerous tissues and cells, the chances are high to break the process and blindness occur. ...
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Multi-frequency EDMR applied to microcrystalline thin-film silicon solar cells
... tant questions remained unsolved. The limited spectral resolution at X-band frequencies did not allow for extracting field-dependent EDMR line shapes. These parameters reveal important information about the electronic ...
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Thin film microcrystalline silicon layers and solar cells: microstructure and electrical performances
... solar cells, this comprises the doped layer plus a small part of the intrinsic ...solar cells, the 633 nm excitation light still probes the doped layer, but also a quite important part of the intrinsic ...
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Thin Film Silicon Nanowire/PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Solar Cells with Surface Treatment
... hybrid cells [6, ...untreated cells exhibit lower shunt resistance, as evidenced from the early turn-on of the cells at low forward voltage range of the J-V curves seen in ...SiNW cells, as ...
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Improvement of Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells with Zinc Oxide Nanorods
... crystalline silicon (c-Si) ...crystalline silicon. The layer was not actually applied to solar cells, and the characteristics of the devices were only obtained from simulation ...a-Si:H ...
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Silicon -Light: a European project aiming at high efficiency thin film silicon solar cells on foil
... The optical modeling was used to determine the opti- mum 2D periodic texture of the rear side reflector/contact, taking into consideration that the structures should be ex- perimentally feasible to make and that textures ...
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Research and Developments in Thin-Film Silicon Photovoltaics
... of thin film silicon photovoltaic devices, multi-junctions such as the micromorph tandem junction have to be developed, and selective light trapping into the thin solar cell is ...amorphous ...
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Pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance for thin film silicon and organic solar cells
... In thin film solar cells based on non-crystalline thin film silicon or organic semiconductors structural disorder leads to localized states that induce device limiting charge ...
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Influence of deep defects on device performance of thin-film polycrystalline silicon solar cells
... AFORS - HET , 21 a numerical solar cell simulation package. Sim- ulations were performed on the above mentioned solar cell structure assuming a Gaussian distribution of DB defects centered in the middle of the band gap. ...
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Plasmon supported defect absorption in amorphous silicon thin film solar cells and devices
... 5.5.2. Influence of Particle Size on Sub-Bandgap Response In this section the influence of the LSP resonance on the IPV induced photocurrent is investigated in more detail. The observed photocurrent is spectrally ...
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Periodic and Random Substrate Textures for Liquid Phase Crystallized Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
... (LPC) silicon thin-film record solar cells are optical losses caused by their planar glass-silicon ...study, silicon is grown on nanoimprinted periodically as well as on randomly ...
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