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Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing

Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing

Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing

Volume 1323:
Loucas Tsakalakos, General Electric
Henry Ji, Transmill Technologies, Inc.
Binxian Ren, Hebei University of Technology
February 2012
1323
Hardback
9781605113005
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    Photovoltaics have received increasing attention in the last decade from the research community as well as industry. The PV market has grown at compound annual rates of 20-40%, and new technologies such as thin films based on CdTe and Cu(In,Ge)Se2 have taken a hold in the market. Tremendous research and development innovation in photovoltaics is occurring around the world. Symposium C, 'Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing', at the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting held April 25−29 in San Francisco, California, provided a forum for exploring advanced materials processing for manufacturing of solar photovoltaics, with new research highlighted by academia and industry (start-ups and large companies) alike.

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    February 2012
    Hardback
    9781605113005
    184 pages
    235 × 158 × 15 mm
    0.41kg
    119 b/w illus. 20 tables
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    Table of Contents

    • Part I. Solution-Based Processes:
    • 1. Analysis and control of plating baths in the electrodeposition of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) films with ion chromatography Serdar Aksu
    • 2. Pore-opening process in nanoporous AAO membranes for electrodeposition of semiconducting nanowires Sovannary Phok
    • Part II. Transparent Conductors and Coatings:
    • 3. Recent progress in transparent conducting materials by use of metallic grids on metal oxides Joop van Deelen
    • 4. Band energy structure arrangement for organic solar cells with metalized deoxyribonucleic acid strands on anode electrode Ali Bilge Guvenc
    • 5. Roll-to-roll front contact patterning by wire shading Rainer Merz
    • 6. Large scale deposition of transparent conducting oxides by hollow cathode sputtering Alan Delahoy
    • 7. Effect of working distance on properties of sputtered molybdenum films Ashwani Kaul
    • 8. Forming gradient multilayer (GML) nano films for photovoltaic and energy storage applications Boris Gilman
    • 9. Optical layers and materials for next generation solar cells Ping Lee
    • 10. Rapid plasma-assisted, ambient-pressure deposition of conformal nanocrystalline zinc oxide thin films for solar cell applications Kwok Siong Teh
    • 11. Systematic study of methanol addition to enhance the film development of APCVD tin oxide Joop van Deelen
    • 12. High deposition rate of low resistive and transparent ZnO:Al on glass with an industrial moving belt APCVD reactor Andrea Illiberi
    • 13. Cost effective fabrication of wafer scale nanoholes for solar cells application Charles Surya
    • 14. Current collecting grids for R2R processed organic solar cells Robert Abbel
    • 15. Electrospun composite nanofiber transparent conductor layer for solar cells Justin Ritchie
    • Part III. Silicon Solar Cells:
    • 16. Silver solar cell technology: pushing the material boundaries Evan Franklin
    • 17. Comparative study on manufacturability of selective emitter and double printing on mono-Si PV cells Yong Liu
    • 18. High throughput, low cost deposition of alumina passivation layers by spatial atomic layer deposition Ad Vermeer
    • 19. Evidence and characterization of crystallographic defect and material quality after SLIM-cut process Alex Masolin
    • 20. Atomistic simulations of the silicon surface structure at the interface of silver thick film contacts on n-type silicon Stefan Kontermann
    • Part IV. Multi-Component Thin Film Manufacturing:
    • 21. High efficiency sputtered CdS/CdTe cells without CdCl2 activation Naba Paudel
    • 22. Characterization of thin film CdTe photovoltaic materials deposited by high plasma density magnetron sputtering John Walls
    • 23. Fabrication of improved p-AgGaSe2/n-Si heterojunction solar cells on optimum quality thermally evaporated AgGaSe2 thin films Krishna Mandal
    • 24. Application of a dual-spectral-range, divergent-beam spectroscopic ellipsometer for high-speed mapping of large-area, laterally-inhomogeneous, photovoltaic multilayers Miklos Fried
    • 25. Structural study of CIGS2 thin film absorbers using EBSD technique Ashwani Kaul.
      Contributors
    • Serdar Aksu, Sovannary Phok, Joop van Deelen, Ali Bilge Guvenc, Rainer Merz, Alan Delahoy, Ashwani Kaul, Boris Gilman, Ping Lee, Kwok Siong Teh, Andrea Illiberi, Charles Surya, Robert Abbel, Justin Ritchie, Evan Franklin, Yong Liu, Ad Vermeer, Alex Masolin, Stefan Kontermann, Naba Paudel, John Walls, Krishna Mandal, Miklos Fried

    • Editors
    • Loucas Tsakalakos , General Electric
    • Henry Ji , Transmill Technologies, Inc.
    • Binxian Ren , Hebei University of Technology