Silicon heterojunction solar cells with effectively transparent front contacts
Abstract
Enhanced current density and efficiency through microscale triangular cross-section effectively transparent contacts (ETCs).
- Authors:
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- California Institute of Technology; Pasadena; USA
- Arizona State University; Tempe; USA
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1535244
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0004946; EE0006335
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Sustainable Energy & Fuels
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2398-4902
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- Chemistry; Energy & Fuels; Materials Science
Citation Formats
Saive, Rebecca, Boccard, Mathieu, Saenz, Theresa, Yalamanchili, Sisir, Bukowsky, Colton R., Jahelka, Phillip, Yu, Zhengshan J., Shi, Jianwei, Holman, Zachary, and Atwater, Harry A. Silicon heterojunction solar cells with effectively transparent front contacts. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1039/c7se00096k.
Saive, Rebecca, Boccard, Mathieu, Saenz, Theresa, Yalamanchili, Sisir, Bukowsky, Colton R., Jahelka, Phillip, Yu, Zhengshan J., Shi, Jianwei, Holman, Zachary, & Atwater, Harry A. Silicon heterojunction solar cells with effectively transparent front contacts. United States. doi:10.1039/c7se00096k.
Saive, Rebecca, Boccard, Mathieu, Saenz, Theresa, Yalamanchili, Sisir, Bukowsky, Colton R., Jahelka, Phillip, Yu, Zhengshan J., Shi, Jianwei, Holman, Zachary, and Atwater, Harry A. Sun .
"Silicon heterojunction solar cells with effectively transparent front contacts". United States. doi:10.1039/c7se00096k.
@article{osti_1535244,
title = {Silicon heterojunction solar cells with effectively transparent front contacts},
author = {Saive, Rebecca and Boccard, Mathieu and Saenz, Theresa and Yalamanchili, Sisir and Bukowsky, Colton R. and Jahelka, Phillip and Yu, Zhengshan J. and Shi, Jianwei and Holman, Zachary and Atwater, Harry A.},
abstractNote = {Enhanced current density and efficiency through microscale triangular cross-section effectively transparent contacts (ETCs).},
doi = {10.1039/c7se00096k},
journal = {Sustainable Energy & Fuels},
issn = {2398-4902},
number = 3,
volume = 1,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {1}
}
DOI: 10.1039/c7se00096k
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