Comparative Study of MVHF and RF Deposited Large Area Multi-junction Solar Cells Incorporating Hydrogenated Nano-Crystalline Silicon

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Xu, Xixiang [1 ]
Li, Yang [1 ]
Ehlert, Scott [1 ]
Su, Tining [1 ]
Beglau, Dave [1 ]
Bobela, David [2 ]
Yue, Guozhen [1 ]
Yan, Baojie [1 ]
Zhang, Jinyan [1 ]
Banerjee, Arindam [1 ]
Yang, Jeff [1 ]
Guha, Subhendu [1 ]
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[1] United Solar Ovon LLC, 1100 W Maple Rd, Troy, MI 48084 USA
[2] Natl Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO 80401 USA
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AMORPHOUS AND POLYCRYSTALLINE THIN FILM SILICON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - 2009, VOL 1153 | 2009年 / 1153卷
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10.1557/PROC-1153-A22-02
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We report our investigations of large area multi-junction solar cells based on hydrogenated nano-crystalline silicon (nc-Si:H). We compared results from cells deposited by RF (13.56 MHz) at lower deposition rate (similar to 3 angstrom/s)and by Modified Very High Frequency (MVHF) at higher rate (>= 10 angstrom/s). With optimized process conditions and cell structures, we have obtained similar to 12% initial small active-area (similar to 0.25 cm(2)) efficiency for both RF and MVHF cells and 10 similar to 11% large aperture-area (similar to 400 cm(2)) encapsulated MVHF cell efficiency for both a-Si:H/nc-Si: H double-junction and a-Si: H/nc-Si:H/nc-Si:H triple-junction structures on Ag/ZnO coated stainless steel substrate.
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