Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol.66, No.1-4, 117-125, 2001
Cost effective and high-performance thin film Si solar cell towards the 21st century
Research and development of thin film Si solar cells are reviewed. By combining a poly-Si cell with an a-Si cell, both of which are fabricated by plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at low temperature, a stabilized efficiency of 12% has been reached for a-Si:H/polp-Si/poly-Si cell structure, A stabilized efficiency of 11.3% has been reached for a 5 x 5 cm(2), 10-segment monolithically series interconnected a-Si/poly-Si tandem cell. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.