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Towards Very Low-Cost Mass Production of Thin-film Silicon Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Modules on Glass
Arvind Shah,Johannes Meier,A. Buechel,Ulrich Kroll,Jérôme Steinhauser,F. Meillaud,Horst Schade,Didier Domine +7 more
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In this article, the combination of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon thin films within a tandem solar cell corresponds to a theoretical optimum, and stabilized efficiencies of 10% to 12% have so far been obtained in the laboratory with such tandem solar cells.About:
This article is published in Thin Solid Films.The article was published on 2006-04-28. It has received 125 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Photovoltaics & Photovoltaic system.read more
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Transition between grain boundary and intragrain scattering transport mechanisms in boron-doped zinc oxide thin films
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive model for the electronic transport in polycrystalline ZnO:B thin films grown by low pressure chemical vapor deposition is presented, where optical mobilities and carrier concentration calculated from reflectance spectra using the Drude model were compared with the data obtained by Hall measurements.
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Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells
TL;DR: In this article, the current use and challenges of thin-film silicon solar cells, including conductivities and doping, the properties of microcrystalline silicon (the role of the internal electric field, shunts, series resistance problems, light trapping), tandem and multijunction solar cells (a-Si:H/a -Si: H tandems, triple-junction amorphous cells, micro-crystaline-amorphous or “micromorph” Tandems), module production (deposition of thinfilm layers, substrate materials,
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Physics and Technology of Amorphous-Crystalline Heterostructure Silicon Solar Cells
TL;DR: In this paper, a-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction and other high efficiency solar cells: a comparison of rear contact cells are presented. But the authors do not provide a detailed description of the interaction between the two heterojunctions.
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Silicon heterojunction solar cells: Recent technological development and practical aspects - from lab to industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the recent progress of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells and emphasize the importance of minimised recombination, not only to reach high open-circuit voltages, but also high fill-factor.
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Citizen utilities: The emerging power paradigm
Jemma Green,Peter Newman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess where this may lead and what it means for the grid and reveal how this is emerging in practice due to the significant uptake of solar photovoltaics and now battery storage in Perth, Australia.
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Thin‐film silicon solar cell technology
Arvind Shah,Horst Schade,Milan Vanecek,Johannes Meier,Evelyne Vallat-Sauvain,Nicolas Wyrsch,Ulrich Kroll,C. Droz,Julien Bailat +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the use of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and hydrogenated micro-crystalline silicon (μc-Si-H) thin films (layers), both deposited at low temperatures (200°C) by plasma-assisted chemical vapour deposition (PECVD), from a mixture of silane and hydrogen.
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Electronic properties of substitutionally doped amorphous Si and Ge
W. E. Spear,P. G. Le Comber +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that substitutional doping of an amorphous semiconductor is possible and can provide control of the electronic properties over a wide range, which corresponds to a movement of the Fermi level of 1·2 eV.
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Material and solar cell research in microcrystalline silicon
Arvind Shah,Johannes Meier,Evelyne Vallat-Sauvain,Nicolas Wyrsch,Ulrich Kroll,C. Droz,U. Graf +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the introduction of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) as novel absorber material for thin-film silicon solar cells.
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A high efficiency thin film silicon solar cell and module
Kenji Yamamoto,Akihiko Nakajima,Masashi Yoshimi,Toru Sawada,Susumu Fukuda,Takashi Suezaki,Mitsuru Ichikawa,Yohei Koi,Masahiro Goto,Tomomi Meguro,Takahiro Matsuda,Masataka Kondo,Toshiaki Sasaki,Yuko Tawada +13 more
TL;DR: A photoelectric conversion efficiency of over 10% has been achieved in thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells which consist of a 2-μm thick layer of polycrystaline silicon.
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Device grade microcrystalline silicon owing to reduced oxygen contamination
Pedro Torres,Johannes Meier,R. Flückiger,Ulrich Kroll,J. A. Anna Selvan,Herbert Keppner,Arvind Shah,S. D. Littelwood,I. E. Kelly,P. Giannoulès +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the unwanted donor-like states within microcrystalline silicon are mainly due to extrinsic impurities and not to structural native defects, and therefore, one can replace the technologically delicate microdoping technique by a purification method, that is much easier to handle.
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