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Amorphous And Micromorph Si Solar Cells: Current Status And Outlook, Vitaliy Avrutin, Natalia Izyumskaya, Hadis Morkoç
Amorphous And Micromorph Si Solar Cells: Current Status And Outlook, Vitaliy Avrutin, Natalia Izyumskaya, Hadis Morkoç
Turkish Journal of Physics
An overview of the current status and prospects of thin-film Si photovoltaics, including both hydrogenated amorphous and microcrystalline Si as well their combination known as micromorph solar cells, with a major focus on the technological development is given. Although thin-film Si solar cells have been one of the first commercially successful photovoltaic devices, today they face a tremendous challenge from variety of bulk Si technologies (mono- and multicrystalline Si) and compound-semiconductor thin-film solar cells, both of which have managed to substantially reduce the production cost and improve power conversion efficiency. Thin-film Si photovoltaics benefiting from the mighty mainstream Si industry …