Physics and Technology of Amorphous-Crystalline Heterostructure Silicon Solar Cells

1. Introduction – Physics and Technology of Amorphous-Crystalline Heterostructure Silicon Solar Cells
Wilfried Sark, Lars Korte, Francesco Roca

2. Heterojunction Silicon Based Solar Cells
Miro Zeman, Dong Zhang

3. Wet-Chemical Conditioning of Silicon Substrates for a-Si:H/c-Si Heterojunctions
Heike Angermann, Jörg Rappich

4. Electrochemical Passivation and Modification of c-Si surfaces
Jörg Rappich

5. Deposition Techniques and Processes Involved in the Growth of Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon Thin Films
Pere Roca i Cabarrocas

6. Electronic Properties of Ultrathin a-Si:H Layers and the a-Si:H/c-Si Interface
Lars Korte

7. Intrinsic and Doped a-Si:H/c-Si Interface Passivation
Stefaan Wolf

8. Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence from Amorphous Silicon/Crystalline Silicon Heterostructures and Solar Cells
Rudolf Brüggemann

9. Deposition and Properties of TCOs
Florian Ruske

10. Contact Formation on a-Si:H/c-Si Heterostructure Solar Cells
Mario Tucci, Luca Serenelli, Simona Iuliis, Massimo Izzi, Giampiero Cesare, Domenico Caputo

11. Electrical Characterization of HIT Type Solar Cells
Jatin K. Rath

12. Band Lineup Theories and the Determination of Band Offsets from Electrical Measurements
Jean-Paul Kleider

13. General Principles of Solar Cell Simulation and Introduction to AFORS-HET
Rolf Stangl, Caspar Leendertz

14. Modeling an a-Si:H/c-Si Solar Cell with AFORS-HET
Caspar Leendertz, Rolf Stangl

15. Two-Dimensional Simulations of Interdigitated Back Contact Silicon Heterojunctions Solar Cells
Djicknoum Diouf, Jean-Paul Kleider, Christophe Longeaud

16. Technology and Design of Classical and Heterojunction Back Contacted Silicon Solar Cells
Niels E. Posthuma, Barry J. O’Sullivan, Ivan Gordon

17. a-Si:H/c-Si Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Smart Choice for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Delfina Muñoz, Thibaut Desrues, Pierre-Jean Ribeyron

Keywords: Materials Science, Optical and Electronic Materials, Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films