Status Of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells At Solarex

D. E. Carlson; A. Catalano; R. V. D'Aiello; C. R. Dickson; R. S. Oswald

doi:10.1117/12.937235

20 November 1986 Status Of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells At Solarex

D. E. Carlson, A. Catalano, R. V. D'Aiello, C. R. Dickson, R. S. Oswald

Proceedings Volume 0706, Photovoltaics for Commercial Solar Power Applications; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.937235
Event: Cambridge Symposium-Fiber/LASE '86, 1986, Cambridge, MA, United States

Abstract

The Solarex Thin Film Division started commercial production of amorphous silicon solar cells for consumer applications in February 1984. Since that time, Solarex has produced more than twenty different types of amorphous silicon solar modules with sizes varying from 0.5cm2 to 1000cm2. The modules contain from 2 to 30 cells connected in series by sequentially patterning the various layers in the solar-cell structure. Conversion efficiencies as high as 10.9% have been obtained with superlattice p layers in 1.16cm2 p-i-n and efficiencies up to 8.7% have been obtained in large area modules (active area = 864cm2).

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D. E. Carlson, A. Catalano, R. V. D'Aiello, C. R. Dickson, and R. S. Oswald "Status Of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells At Solarex", Proc. SPIE 0706, Photovoltaics for Commercial Solar Power Applications, (20 November 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.937235

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