A case is developed for considering silicon as the prime medium-term candidate for
semiconductor photovoltaic cells; the argumentation is based on other materials not being …

Thin-film solar cell technologies based on Si with a thickness of less than a few micrometers
combine the low-cost potential of thin-film technologies with the advantages of Si as an …

“Micromorph” tandem solar cells consisting of a microcrystalline silicon bottom cell and an
amorphous silicon top cell are considered as one of the most promising new thin-film silicon …

Crystalline semiconductors are very well known, including silicon (the basis of the integrated
circuits used in modern electronics), Ge (the material of the first transistor), GaAs and the …

The effect of plasma excitation frequency on the deposition rate and on the optical and
electrical properties of amorphous silicon film is studied over the range 25–150 MHz …

Recently the authors have demonstrated that compensated or “midgap” intrinsic
hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si: H), as deposited by the Very High Frequency …

Semiconductors made from amorphous silicon have recently become important for their
commercial applications in optical and electronic devices including FAX machines, solar …

To study recombination at the amorphous/crystalline Si (a‐Si: H/c‐Si) heterointerface, the
amphoteric nature of silicon (Si) dangling bonds is taken into account. Modeling interface …

Tandem solar cells with a microcrystalline silicon bottom cell (1 eV gap) and an amorphous-
silicon top cell (1.7 eV gap) have recently been introduced by the authors; they were …

A self-consistent particle-in-cell simulation study is performed to investigate the effect of
driving frequency on the electric field nonlinearity, electron heating mechanism, and electron …