Thin-film multiple-quantum-well solar cells fabricated by epitaxial lift-off process

T Nakata, K Watanabe, N Miyashita… - Japanese Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Thin-film solar cells fabricated using the epitaxial lift-off (ELO) process enable considerable
cost reduction as well as light-trapping. A polyimide film was used as a support substrate for …

Photon confinement in high-efficiency, thin-film III–V solar cells obtained by epitaxial lift-off

JJ Schermer, GJ Bauhuis, P Mulder, EJ Haverkamp… - Thin Solid Films, 2006 - Elsevier
Using the epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technique, a III–V device structure can be separated from its
GaAs substrate by selective wet etching of a thin release layer. The thin-film structures …

GaInP single junction and GaInP/GaAs two junction thin-film solar cell structures by epitaxial lift-off

Y Yazawa, K Tamura, S Watahiki, T Kitatani… - Solar energy materials …, 1998 - Elsevier
The epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technique was used in forming a thin-film GaInP/GaAs two-
junction monolithic tandem solar cell structure. First, the GaInP single junction solar cell to …

Thin-film III–V solar cells using epitaxial lift-off

GJ Bauhuis, P Mulder, JJ Schermer - High-Efficiency Solar Cells: Physics …, 2014 - Springer
Epitaxial lift-off is used to create thin-film III–V solar cells without sacrificing the GaAs wafer. It
is based on selective etching of an AlAs release layer between the wafer and the cell …

Fabrication and Applications of High-Efficiency, Lightweight, Multi-Junction Solar Cells by Epitaxial Liftoff

VC Elarde, H Miyamoto, R Chan, C Stender… - ECS …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
MicroLink Devices has developed an epitaxial liftoff (ELO) technology for removing thin
device layers from the surface of a semiconductor wafer using a flexible metallic sheet to …

Thin film solar cells fabricated using cross-shaped pattern epilayer lift-off technology for substrate recycling applications

RH Horng, MC Tseng, FL Wu, CH Li… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study reports the use of cross-shaped pattern epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technology to
release crack-free single crystal epilayers with a solar cell structure from a gallium arsenide …

Epitaxial lift-off of GaAs thin-film solar cells followed by substrate reuse

K Lee, JD Zimmerman, Y Zhang… - 2012 38th IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate the fabrication of GaAs thin-film solar cells on plastic substrate by
combining epitaxial lift-off (ELO) and cold weld bonding. A lattice-matched epitaxial …

A study on epitaxial lift-off in InGaP/GaAs double-junction solar cells via Au-Au bonding on pre-patterned area

G yeol Park, C won Kim, H jin Kim - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have investigated the improvement of GaAs substrate reusing and the regrowth
possibility of the epi-layer for the flexible InGaP/GaAs double junction solar cell. The …

[HTML][HTML] Epitaxial lift-off process for GaAs solar cells controlled by InGaAs internal sacrificial stressor layers and a PMMA surface stressor

P Ramu, A Aho, V Polojärvi, T Aho, A Tukiainen… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Epitaxial lift-off (ELO) techniques enable the development of thin-film III–V solar cell devices
that are flexible and lightweight. To this end, we report an ELO process employing an …

[PDF][PDF] Epitaxial lift-off of large-area GaAs thin-film multi-junction solar cells

C Youtsey, J Adams, R Chan, V Elarde… - CS Mantech …, 2012 - researchgate.net
MicroLink Devices is currently transitioning into production a wafer-scale, epitaxial lift-off
process technology for GaAs-and InP-based materials. This process enables the separation …