• Title of article

    Towards large-area, high-efficiency a-Si/a-SiGe tandem solar cells

  • Author/Authors

    Okamoto، نويسنده , , Shingo and Maruyama، نويسنده , , Eiji and Terakawa، نويسنده , , Akira and Shinohara، نويسنده , , Wataru and Nakano، نويسنده , , Shingo and Hishikawa، نويسنده , , Yoshihiro and Wakisaka، نويسنده , , Kenichiro and Kiyama، نويسنده , , Seiichi، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    85
  • To page
    94
  • Abstract
    This paper reviews recent progress in large-area a-Si/a-SiGe tandem solar cells at Sanyo. Considerable efforts have been devoted to improving both the stabilized efficiency and the production throughput. High-speed patterning using plasma chemical vaporization machining (CVM) has been successfully applied to the a-Si patterning of a 1200 cm2 a-Si integrated-type submodule. The optimization of the hydrogen dilution has led to a high stabilized efficiency of 9.2% for a 1200 cm2 a-Si/a-SiGe tandem submodule whose photovoltaic layers are deposited at 3 إ/s. A scale-up of the submodule size from 1200 to 5400 cm2 is now being done in a pilot plant, which has been operating since April 1999.
  • Keywords
    High-rate deposition , tandem , amorphous silicon , solar cells , Germanium
  • Journal title
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Serial Year
    2001
  • Journal title
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • Record number

    1476987