Amorphous/crystalline heterostructure as a novel approach to fabrication of a solar cell

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The performance and characteristics of a novel structure device combining amorphous and crystalline semiconductors is reported for the first time. An amorphous SiC:H/crystal Si heterostructure solar cell gave a conversion efficiency of 5.11% with Voc = 0.53 V and Isc = 22.64 mA/cm2 without the use of any transparent electrode or AR coating. The relative spectral response of the cells has been found to be close to that of the ‘violet cell’.

Inspec keywords: p-n heterojunctions; solar cells; semiconductor materials; hydrogen; silicon compounds; silicon; amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors

Other keywords: solar cell; spectral response; semiconductors; amorphous SiC:H; Si; amorphous/crystalline heterostructure; conversion efficiency

Subjects: Elemental semiconductors; Solar cells and arrays; Electrical properties of semiconductor-to-semiconductor contacts, p-n junctions, and heterojunctions; Photoelectric conversion; solar cells and arrays; Semiconductor junctions; Amorphous and glassy semiconductors

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