Progress in solar cells from hydrogenated amorphous silicon

M Stuckelberger, R Biron, N Wyrsch, FJ Haug… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) has been used for decades—doped and as
intrinsic absorber layers—in thin-film silicon solar cells. Whereas their effiency was improved …

Tension–compression asymmetry in amorphous silicon

Y Wang, J Ding, Z Fan, L Tian, M Li, H Lu, Y Zhang… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Hard and brittle materials usually exhibit a much lower strength when loaded in tension than
in compression. However, this common-sense behaviour may not be intrinsic to these …

Tuning film stresses for open-air processing of stable metal halide perovskites

M Ahmad, C Cartledge, G McAndrews… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Challenges to upscaling metal halide perovskites (MHPs) include mechanical film stresses
that accelerate degradation, dominate at the module scale, and can lead to delamination or …

PEALD of SiO2 and Al2O3 Thin Films on Polypropylene: Investigations of the Film Growth at the Interface, Stress, and Gas Barrier Properties of Dyads

M Gebhard, L Mai, L Banko, F Mitschker… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A study on the plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of amorphous inorganic oxides
SiO2 and Al2O3 on polypropylene (PP) was carried out with respect to growth taking place …

Stress effects on the Raman spectrum of an amorphous material: Theory and experiment on -Si:H

DA Strubbe, EC Johlin, TR Kirkpatrick, T Buonassisi… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Strain in a material induces shifts in vibrational frequencies. This phenomenon is a probe of
the nature of the vibrations and interatomic potentials and can be used to map local …

Roles of hydrogen in structural stability and electronic property of bulk hydrogenated amorphous silicon

H Zhang, Y Luo, F Tang, Y Xiang, C Wu… - Computational Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) has been widely used due to its unique
photoelectric properties, but the information about its structure is patchy and the factors that …

Effect of argon plasma-treated polyethylene terepthalate on ZnO: Al properties for flexible thin film silicon solar cells applications

S Fernández, JD Santos, C Munuera… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The 0.4 μm-thick Aluminum-doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO: Al) films were deposited at
100° C on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates by Radio Frequency (RF) magnetron …

Anomalous tension–compression asymmetry in amorphous silicon: insights from atomistic simulations and elastoplastic constitutive modeling

B Ding, L Hu, Y Gao, Y Chen, X Li - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent experiments observed an inherent, anomalous tension-compression (TC)
asymmetry with T> C in microscale amorphous silicon (a-Si), which is free of dominant …

Phase-microstructure of Mo/Si nanoscale multilayer and intermetallic compound formation in interfaces

N Kumar, AV Nezhdanov, RM Smertin, VN Polkovnikov… - Intermetallics, 2020 - Elsevier
Microstructural investigation of the Mo/Si nanoscale multilayers (MLs) is essential to design
high-reflective nanomirrors. Raman spectroscopy showed existence of silicon layer in the …

PECVD intermediate and absorber layers applied in liquid-phase crystallized silicon solar cells on glass substrates

O Gabriel, T Frijnts, S Calnan, S Ring… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Liquid-phase crystallized silicon absorber layers have been applied in heterojunction solar
cells on glass substrates with 10.8% conversion efficiency and an open-circuit voltage of …