Materials aspects of amorphous silicon solar cells

S Guha - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 1997 - Elsevier
Significant progress has recently been made in improving the stable efficiency of amorphous
silicon alloy solar cells. This has been achieved through a better understanding of the effect …

[HTML][HTML] PECVD Processing of low bandgap-energy amorphous hydrogenated germanium-tin (a-GeSn: H) films for opto-electronic applications

T de Vrijer, K Roodenburg, F Saitta, T Blackstone… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
An alloy based on the group IV elements germanium and tin has the potential of yielding an
earth-abundant low bandgap energy semiconductor material with applications in the fields …

Effect of H2 dilution on Cat-CVD a-SiC: H films

BP Swain, TKG Rao, M Roy, J Gupta, RO Dusane - Thin Solid Films, 2006 - Elsevier
Effect of hydrogen (H2) dilution of the Silane (SiH4), acetylene (C2H2) gas mixture during
the deposition of hydrogenated amorphous silicon carbon alloy (a-SiC: H) films by Cat-CVD …

Defect characterization of a-SiC: H and a-SiN: H alloys produced by ultrahigh vacuum plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition in different plasma conditions

T Stapinski, G Ambrosone, U Coscia, F Giorgis… - Physica B: Condensed …, 1998 - Elsevier
High electronic quality a-SiC: H and a-SiN: H films with optical gap up to 2.3 eV have been
deposited by ultrahigh vacuum plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition in undiluted …

Properties of a-SiC: H films and solar cells

R Gharbi, M Fathallah, CF Pirri, E Tresso… - Canadian Journal of …, 2000 - cdnsciencepub.com
Par déposition de vapeur chimique avec poussée plasmatique dans une enceinte à
chambres multiples, nous avons produit des couches minces et des cellules solaires de type …

Electrical resistivity of a-SiC:H as a function of temperature: Evidence for discontinuities

R Murri, N Pinto, G Ambrosone, U Coscia - Physical Review B, 2000 - APS
We report on two different, but well defined, behaviors of resistivity vs temperature in
amorphous SiC: H films deposited from (SiH 4+ C 2 H 2) gas mixture. The electrical …

Effect of hydrogen radicals on properties and structure of a-Si1− xCx: H films

A Tabata, H Kamijo, Y Suzuoki, T Mizutani - Journal of non-crystalline …, 1998 - Elsevier
We investigated the effect of hydrogen radicals on properties and structure of hydrogenated
amorphous silicon carbide (a-Si1− xCx: H) films by the use of a preparation system …

Static and dynamic electrical study of a-SiC: H based p–i–n structure, effect of hydrogen dilution of the intrinsic layer

M Abdelkrim, M Loulou, R Gharbi, M Fathallah… - Solid-state …, 2007 - Elsevier
p–i–n Heterostructures deposited by ultra high vacuum plasma enhanced chemical vapour
deposition (UHV-PECVD) using silane and methane gases with and without hydrogen …

Plausible interpretation of optical absorption spectra of a-SiC: H thin films

VI Ivashchenko, GV Rusakov, VI Shevchenko… - Applied surface …, 2001 - Elsevier
Boron-doped and undoped a-Si1− xCx: H, for x≈ 0.5, films were prepared by a plasma-
enhanced-chemical-vapor-deposition from methyltrichlorosilane as the main precursor …

Fabrication of a-SiGeC: H solar cells using monomethyl germane by suppressing carbon incorporation for narrowing optical bandgap

DY Kim, IA Yunaz, S Kasashima, S Miyajima… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2011 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon–germanium–carbide (a-SiGeC: H) thin films have been
fabricated by very high frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (VHF …