Reducing optical and resistive losses in graded silicon-germanium buffer layers for silicon based tandem cells using step-cell design
Si solar cells with a SiGe graded buffer on top are fabricated as the initial step in GaAsP/Si tandem cell fabrication. Using this structure, the impact of the SiGe buffer layer on the Si solar cells is characterized. To mitigate the impact of the narrow-bandgap SiGe on the electrical and optical ch...
Main Authors: | Evelina Polyzoeva, Sabina Abdul Hadi, Ammar Nayfeh, Judy L. Hoyt |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2015-05-01
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Series: | AIP Advances |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4921945 |
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