The present article gives a summary of recent technological and scientific developments in
the field of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin-film solar cells on foreign substrates. Cost …

Thin film hetero‐emitter solar cells with large‐grained poly‐silicon absorbers of around 10
µm thickness have been prepared on glass. The basis of the cell concept is electron‐beam …

Polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin-films have the potential to overcome the limits of today's
silicon thin-film solar cell technology because of the chance to grow high-quality material by …

In thin film solar cells based on non-crystalline thin film silicon or organic semiconductors
structural disorder leads to localized states that induce device limiting charge recombination …

The kinetics of gold-induced crystallization (AuIC) of amorphous silicon suboxide (a-SiO x,
x= 0.2) films in the layer exchange mode was detailed studied by variation of the annealing …

Electron-beam evaporation (EBE) of silicon permits the high-rate deposition of photovoltaic
thin-film devices at low costs. The directional, non-conformal growth characteristic of EBE is …

The chemical structure of the interface between silicon thin films and the transparent
conductive oxide ZnO: Al has been investigated by hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy …

Polycrystalline Si (poly-Si) thin-film solar cells on glass feature the potential to reach high
single-junction efficiencies at low costs. However, the preparation is challenging because …

A model for explosive crystallization in a thin amorphous layer on a heat conducting
substrate is presented. For the thin layer, the energy equation is used in a one-dimensional …

High-quality polycrystalline silicon films on low-cost and low-temperature substrates have
attracted much attention as promising materials for high-speed thin-film transistors and thin …