Recent advances in amorphous silicon technologies and its application to solar cells

Yoshihiro Hamakawa

Renewable Energy, 1996, vol. 8, issue 1, 10-16

Abstract: The current state of the art in amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) solar cell R & D efforts and their photovoltaic system applications are reviewed. Firstly, progress in a-Si alloy production technologies is overviewed with their significance as the champion material for a low cost solar cells. Secondly, some new approaches and key technologies to improve solar cell efficiency with stabilized performance by new amorphous silicon alloys and polycrystalline thin film fora-Si basis stacked solar cells are demonstrated. In the final part of paper, progress of the conversion efficiency in various types of amorphous silicon solar cells are surveyed and summarized.

Keywords: Solar photovoltaics; Amorphous silicon; Thin film solar cells; Heterojunction solar cells; Stacked solar cells; Photovoltaic system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88812-4

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