Author:
Yang Jeffrey,Yan Baojie,Smeets Jozef,Guha Subhendu
Abstract
ABSTRACTA modified very high frequency (MVHF) glow discharge technique is used to deposit amorphous silicon (a-Si) and amorphous silicon-germanium (a-SiGe) alloy solar cells at high deposition rates. High quality a-Si alloy solar cells have been obtained by using MVHF at deposition rates up to ∼10 Å/s. The cells show good initial and stabilized efficiencies comparable to those obtained from conventional radio-frequency (RF) glow discharge deposition at low rates (∼1 Å/s). However, high quality a-SiGe alloy solar cells are more difficult to achieve at high deposition rates. In this paper, we present the progress made on a-SiGe alloy solar cells by incorporating bandgap profiling and appropriate buffer layers. Using the improved a-SiGe alloy solar cells, a-Si/a-SiGe tandem configurations are made and results presented.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Cited by
10 articles.
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