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Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells on Transparent Plastic Substrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Ehsanollah Fathi  and
Andrei Sazonov
Ehsanollah Fathi
Affiliation:
efathi@engmail.uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo, ECE, Waterloo, Canada
Andrei Sazonov
Affiliation:
asazonov@venus.uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo, ECE, Waterloo, Canada
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Abstract

In this work, we optimized different thin film silicon layers in a single junction p-i-n solar cell at deposition temperature of 150 °C. Using the optimized doped and undoped layers, 0.5 cm2 test cells fabricated both on glass and polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrates. The cells show identical open circuit voltages and fill factors, whereas the short circuit current and consequently the efficiency of the cell fabricated on glass is higher than the efficiency of 3.99% of the cell fabricated on PEN substrate.

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photovoltaicamorphousplasma-enhanced CVD (PECVD) (deposition)

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