TY - GEN
T1 - Light-soaking stability of nano-structure tailored silicon thin film solar cells
AU - Ito, M.
AU - Myojin, N.
AU - Kondo, K.
AU - Matsuda, A.
AU - Shiratani, Masaharu
AU - Watanabe, Yukio
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - In order to overcome the light-soaking degradation of hydrogenated amorphous silicon(a-Si:H) solar cells, we have developed a novel material, called nanostructure tailored silicon, where nano-sized crystallites embedded in the amorphous silicon matrix homogeneously. Size and distribution of the crystallites can be precisely controlled by the layer-by-layer deposition. Degradation ratio of standard a-Si:H solar cells, whose degradation ratio is around 19%, can be remarkably suppressed to less than 5%. Although their initial efficiencies are not as high as standard a-Si:H solar cells, their after-light-soaked efficiencies (7.3%) exceed that of amorphous one (6.8%) on non-textured substrate.
AB - In order to overcome the light-soaking degradation of hydrogenated amorphous silicon(a-Si:H) solar cells, we have developed a novel material, called nanostructure tailored silicon, where nano-sized crystallites embedded in the amorphous silicon matrix homogeneously. Size and distribution of the crystallites can be precisely controlled by the layer-by-layer deposition. Degradation ratio of standard a-Si:H solar cells, whose degradation ratio is around 19%, can be remarkably suppressed to less than 5%. Although their initial efficiencies are not as high as standard a-Si:H solar cells, their after-light-soaked efficiencies (7.3%) exceed that of amorphous one (6.8%) on non-textured substrate.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:6444231848
SN - 4990181603
SN - 9784990181604
T3 - Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
SP - 1592
EP - 1595
BT - Proceddings of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
A2 - Kurokawa, K.
A2 - Kazmerski, L.L.
A2 - McNeils, B.
A2 - Yamaguchi, M.
A2 - Wronski, C.
T2 - Proceddings of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
Y2 - 11 May 2003 through 18 May 2003
ER -