Film Silicon Science and Technology

Table of Contents

• Part I. Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells:
• 1. Light management using periodic textures for enhancing photocurrent and conversion efficiency in thin-film silicon solar cells
• 2. Panasonic's thin film silicon technologies for advanced photovoltaics
• 3. Hydrogen-plasma etching of thin amorphous silicon layers for heterojunction interdigitated back-contact solar cells
• 4. Employing lc-SiOX:H as n-type layer and back TCO replacement for high-efficiency a-Si:H/lc-Si:H tandem solar cells
• 5. A vertical PN junction utilizing the impurity photovoltaic effect for the enhancement of ultra-thin film silicon solar cells
• 6. Impact on thin film silicon properties and solar cell parameters of texture generated by laser annealing and chemical etching of ZnO:Al
• 7. Novel intermediate reflector layer for optical and morphological tuning in the micromorph thin film tandem cell
• 8. Development of nanocrystalline silicon based multi-junction solar cell technology for high volume manufacturing
• 9. SnO2:F with very high haze value and transmittance in near infrared wavelength for use as front transparent conductive oxide films in thin-film silicon solar cells
• Part II. Novel Silicon-Based Devices and Solar Cells:
• 10. Amorphous silicon based betavoltaic devices
• 11. SiC monolithically integrated wavelength selector with 4 channels
• 12. Design of an optical transmission WDM link using plastic optical fibers
• 13. Optoelectronic logic functions using optical bias controlled SiC multilayer devices
• 14. Improvement of seed layer smoothness for epitaxial growth on porous silicon
• Part III. Materials and Devices Characterization and Simulation:
• 15. Local junction voltages and radiative ideality factors of a-Si:H solar modules determined by electroluminescence imaging
• 16. The dependence of the crystalline volume fraction on the crystallite size for hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon based solar cells
• 17. Carrier lifetime measurements by photoconductance at low temperature on passivated crystalline silicon wafers
• 18. Characterization of boron doped amorphous silicon films by multiple internal reflection infrared spectroscopy
• 19. Emission spectra study of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of intrinsic, n1, and p1 amorphous silicon thin films
• 20. On the origin of the Urbach Rule and the Urbach Focus
• 21. Ultrafast optical measurements of acoustic phonon attenuation in amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon
• 22. Stress analysis of free-standing silicon oxide films using optical interference
• 23. Effect of RF or VHF plasma on nanocrystalline silicon thin film structure: insight from OES and Langmuir Probe measurements
• Part IV. Defects and Transport:
• 24. Defect densities and carrier lifetimes in oxygen doped nanocrystalline Si
• 25. Microstructure characterization of amorphous silicon films by effusion measurements of implanted helium
• 26. Temperature dependence of 1/f noise and electrical conductivity measurements on p-type a-Si:H devices
• 27. Study of surface passivation of CZ c-Si by PECVD a-Si:H films: a comparison between quasi-steady-state and transient photoconductance decay measurement
• Part V. Nanostructured Silicon and Related Novel Materials:
• 28. Charge transport in nanocrystalline germanium/hydrogenated amorphous silicon mixed-phase thin films
• 29. Low temperature annealing of inkjet-printed silicon thin-films for photovoltaic and thermoelectric devices
• 30. Shape evolution of faceted silicon nanocrystals upon thermal annealing in an oxide matrix
• 31. Crystallization kinetics of plasma-produced amorphous silicon nanoparticles.
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