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 …

In amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, optical losses can be mitigated by
replacing the amorphous silicon films by wider bandgap amorphous silicon oxide layers. In …

Semiconductors based on group IV elements are widely used in the fields of micro-
electronics, optics and photonics. The group IV alloys are processed using plasma …

High efficiency thin-film silicon multi-junction solar cells require both high open-circuit
voltage (V oc) and high blue spectral response in the top amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) cell …

All-dielectric nanostructures have recently opened exciting opportunities for functional
nanophotonics, owing to their strong optical resonances along with low material loss in the …

P-type hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si: H) has been used as a hole-selective
layer for efficient n-type crystalline silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. However, the …

Using an inductively coupled plasma, hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) films have
been prepared at very low temperatures (< 50 C) to provide crystalline silicon (c-Si) surface …

Several amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) deposition conditions have been reported to produce
films that degrade least under light soaking when incorporated into a-Si: H solar cells …

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 …

Temperature annealing is used as a tool to study the validity of network models for the
nanostructure of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) and its relation to defect states …