Recovery Act: Near-Single-Crystalline Photovoltaic Thin Films on Polycrystalline, Flexible Substrates
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III-V photovoltaics have exhibited efficiencies above 40%, but have found only a limited use because of the high cost of single crystal substrates. At the other end of the spectrum, polycrystalline and amorphous thin film solar cells offer the advantage of low-cost fabrication, but have not yielded high efficiencies. Our program is based on single-crystalline-like thin film photovoltaics on polycrystalline substrates using biaxially-textured templates made by Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition (IBAD)…
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Date:
November 29, 2010
Creator:
Selvamanickam, Venkat & Freundlich, Alex
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