Table of Contents

Part I. Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells:
1. Light management using periodic textures for enhancing photocurrent and conversion efficiency in thin-film silicon solar cells
2. Panasonic's thin film silicon technologies for advanced photovoltaics
3. Hydrogen-plasma etching of thin amorphous silicon layers for heterojunction interdigitated back-contact solar cells
4. Employing lc-SiOX:H as n-type layer and back TCO replacement for high-efficiency a-Si:H/lc-Si:H tandem solar cells
5. A vertical PN junction utilizing the impurity photovoltaic effect for the enhancement of ultra-thin film silicon solar cells
6. Impact on thin film silicon properties and solar cell parameters of texture generated by laser annealing and chemical etching of ZnO:Al
7. Novel intermediate reflector layer for optical and morphological tuning in the micromorph thin film tandem cell
8. Development of nanocrystalline silicon based multi-junction solar cell technology for high volume manufacturing
9. SnO2:F with very high haze value and transmittance in near infrared wavelength for use as front transparent conductive oxide films in thin-film silicon solar cells
Part II. Novel Silicon-Based Devices and Solar Cells:
10. Amorphous silicon based betavoltaic devices
11. SiC monolithically integrated wavelength selector with 4 channels
12. Design of an optical transmission WDM link using plastic optical fibers
13. Optoelectronic logic functions using optical bias controlled SiC multilayer devices
14. Improvement of seed layer smoothness for epitaxial growth on porous silicon
Part III. Materials and Devices Characterization and Simulation:
15. Local junction voltages and radiative ideality factors of a-Si:H solar modules determined by electroluminescence imaging
16. The dependence of the crystalline volume fraction on the crystallite size for hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon based solar cells
17. Carrier lifetime measurements by photoconductance at low temperature on passivated crystalline silicon wafers
18. Characterization of boron doped amorphous silicon films by multiple internal reflection infrared spectroscopy
19. Emission spectra study of plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of intrinsic, n1, and p1 amorphous silicon thin films
20. On the origin of the Urbach Rule and the Urbach Focus
21. Ultrafast optical measurements of acoustic phonon attenuation in amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon
22. Stress analysis of free-standing silicon oxide films using optical interference
23. Effect of RF or VHF plasma on nanocrystalline silicon thin film structure: insight from OES and Langmuir Probe measurements
Part IV. Defects and Transport:
24. Defect densities and carrier lifetimes in oxygen doped nanocrystalline Si
25. Microstructure characterization of amorphous silicon films by effusion measurements of implanted helium
26. Temperature dependence of 1/f noise and electrical conductivity measurements on p-type a-Si:H devices
27. Study of surface passivation of CZ c-Si by PECVD a-Si:H films: a comparison between quasi-steady-state and transient photoconductance decay measurement
Part V. Nanostructured Silicon and Related Novel Materials:
28. Charge transport in nanocrystalline germanium/hydrogenated amorphous silicon mixed-phase thin films
29. Low temperature annealing of inkjet-printed silicon thin-films for photovoltaic and thermoelectric devices
30. Shape evolution of faceted silicon nanocrystals upon thermal annealing in an oxide matrix
31. Crystallization kinetics of plasma-produced amorphous silicon nanoparticles.