High efficiency silicon solar cells / edited by Martin A. Green

Published:: Switzerland ; Brookfield, VT : Trans Tech SA, 1987.
Physical Description:: x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, ENERGY BANDS AND PHONON SPECTRA: Crystal structure -- Energy bands -- Phonon dispersion curves -- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OP SILICON: Light absorption in pure silicon -- Refractive index -- Temperature dependences -- Heavily doped silicon -- Sub-threshold carrier generation -- GENERATION, RECOMBINATION, CARRIER TRANSPORT: Generation -- Recombination -- Carrier transport -- LIGHT TRAPPING: Randomizing schemes -- Geometrical light trapping -- Concentrated light -- FUNDAMENTAL EFFICIENCY LIMITS: Photon-generated current limits -- Open-circuit voltage limits -- Fill-factor limits -- Efficiency limits -- Material requirements -- Potential for exceeding limits -- SURFACE AND BULK MATERIAL PROPERTIES: Surface recombination -- Contact recombination -- Bulk recombination -- Gettering -- Diffused layer contributions -- EVOLUTION OF SILICON SOLAR CELL DESIGN: Early silicon cells -- Conventional space cells -- Back surface fields -- Violet cells -- Black cells -- Oxide surface passivation -- Contact passivation -- MINP and PESC cells -- Microgrooved PESC cells -- Recent developments -- PRACTICAL HIGH EFFICIENCY TERRESTRIAL CELLS: Buried contact solar cell -- Future directions -- HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS: Conventional cells -- Back surface contact cells -- Vertical junction cells -- Point contact solar cell -- POLYCRYSTALLINE AND RIBBON SILICON: Hydrogen passivation -- Phosphorus treatment -- Other passivation approaches -- Texturing -- Improved cell structures.

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0878495371

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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