Development of silicon solar cells and silicon epilayers for photovoltaic applications in South Africa

V.J. Watters, J.G. Ter Stege, P.E. Viljoen, A.W.R. Leitch and R. Mulder

Renewable Energy, 1995, vol. 6, issue 5, 607-612

Abstract: Thin crystalline silicon epilayers were grown in a rotating liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) graphite boat. The epilayers were grown from a saturated indium solution, on single-crystal (100) boron-doped Si substrates, using the equilibrium cooling technique. The efficiency of solar cells can be improved, since LPE has the potential to produce good quality thin crystalline layers. LPE is a cheap and simple technique, and coupling it with layer deposition on inexpensive substrates could possibly provide the solution to lowering the overall cost/kW h of power generation.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(95)00066-S

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