Role of carbon in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cell degradation

15 January 1984

journal article
conference paper
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 44 (2) , 200-201
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.94708

Abstract

Experiments using a combination of capacitance and photovoltaic transient spectroscopy on hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells demonstrate that carbon produces a metastable defect with characteristic energy and emission time. This defect is involved in solar cell degradation.

Keywords

DEGRADATION
AMORPHOUS STATE
HYDROGENATION
SILICON SOLAR CELLS
DEFECTS
DEEP LEVEL TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY
CARBON
TRAPS
IMPURITIES
PHOTOCURRENTS
SI:H [AMORPHOUS]
SI:(C

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