Preparation of microcrystalline single junction and amorphous-microcrystalline tandem silicon solar cells entirely by hot-wire CVD

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作者
Kupich, M [1 ]
Grunsky, D [1 ]
Kumar, P [1 ]
Schröder, B [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Kaiserslautern, Dept Phys, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
关键词
tandem solar cells; amorphous silicon; microcrystalline silicon; hot-wire CVD;
D O I
10.1016/j.solmat.2003.10.002
中图分类号
TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];
学科分类号
0807 ; 0820 ;
摘要
The hot-wire chemical vapour deposition (HWCVD) has been used to prepare highly conducting p- and n-doped microcrystalline silicon thin layers as well as highly photoconducting, low defect density intrinsic microcrystalline silicon films. These films were incorporated in all-HWCVD, all-microcrystalline nip and pin solar cells, achieving conversion efficiencies of eta = 5.4% and 4.5%, respectively. At present, only the nip-structures are found to be stable against light-induced degradation. Furthermore, microcrystalline nip and pin structures have been successfully incorporated as bottom cells in all-hot-wire amorphous-microcrystalline nipnip- and pinpin-tandem solar cells for the first time. So far, the highest conversion efficiencies of the "micromorph" tandem structures are eta = 5.7% for pinpin-solar cells and 7.0% for nipnip solar cells. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:141 / 146
页数:6
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