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Recent Progress of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Y. Hamakawa
Y. Hamakawa*
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Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan
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Abstract

A review is given on recent progress in the amorphous silicon solar cells and their technologies. Firstly, some unique advantages of amorphous silicon as a low cost solar cell material are pointed out, and its significant position in the photovoltaic project are discussed. Secondly, newly developed key technologies for improving the photovoltaic performance are demonstrated from the film quality improvement to new junction structure solar cells with a wide and narrow energy gap amorphous silicon alloys. Then, current state of the art in the cell performance are summarized. In the final part, recent feature of the industrializations in both consumer and power application fields are overviewed.

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