 A technological evolution from bulk crystalline age to multilayers thin film age in solar photovoltaicsYoshihiro Hamakawa Renewable Energy, 1998, vol. 15, issue 1, 22-31 Abstract: Recent advances in solar cell device technologies are surveyed, and a new trend underlying is predicted by a term “technological evolution from the bulk crystalline age to the multilayered thin film age”. In the paper, firstly, recent progress of thin film fabrication technologies for active materials of photovoltaic device are reviewed, and their significancies such as wide area, low temperature growth etc., are pointed out from currently developed live technologies. Secondly, some R & D efforts to develop the next generation type solar cells utilized by full use of multi-layers thin film growth technology are introduced together with some newly developed integrated process technology for the thin film solar cells. Then, some topics in the high cost performance multi-layers thin film solar cells are also introduced. In the final part of this paper, the current state of the art in the field of thin film solar cells and their industrialization are overviewed and the market expansion toward the 21st century is forecast, and discussed. Keywords: Solar photovoltaics; Amorphous silicon; Thin film solar cells; Heterojunction solar cells; Stacked solar cells; Photovoltaic system (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:15:y:1998:i:1:p:22-31 DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00132-3 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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