Thin Film Silicon: Research and Application for Solar Energy Conversion

Abstract

Recent research and application activities with thin film silicon for solar energy conversion include transparent flexible substrates witha nano-imprint process for enhanced light-trapping, silicon-carbon and silicon-oxygen alloys for thin film and heterojunction solar cells, stacked solar cells as generators for integrated photocatalytic water splitting devices, concepts for integrated battery charge systems, and processing of thin film silicon from liquid precursors. Results from some of these new activities will be highlighted and state-of-the art device applications will be presented