Search Results - "Johnson, Erik V"
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Strong ionization asymmetry in a geometrically symmetric radio frequency capacitively coupled plasma induced by sawtooth voltage waveforms
Published in Physical review letters (27-03-2015)“…The ionization dynamics in geometrically symmetric parallel plate capacitively coupled plasmas driven by radio frequency tailored voltage waveforms is…”
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Irreversible light-induced degradation and stabilization of hydrogenated polymorphous silicon solar cells
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-10-2012)“…In this work, hydrogenated amorphous and polymorphous silicon (a-Si:H and pm-Si:H) solar cells were tested for the reversibility of their light-induced…”
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Evolution of Cu-In Catalyst Nanoparticles under Hydrogen Plasma Treatment and Silicon Nanowire Growth Conditions
Published in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) (12-07-2023)“…We report silicon nanowire (SiNW) growth with a novel Cu-In bimetallic catalyst using a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) method. We study the…”
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Effect of Ion Energy on Microcrystalline Silicon Material and Devices: A Study Using Tailored Voltage Waveforms
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-11-2014)“…The use of tailored voltage waveforms to excite a plasma has been shown to be an effective technique to decouple maximum ion energy from the ion flux on the…”
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Ion Energy Threshold in Low-Temperature Silicon Epitaxy for Thin-Film Crystalline Photovoltaics
Published in IEEE journal of photovoltaics (01-11-2014)“…Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) enables epitaxial silicon deposition for up to several micrometers and at low temperatures (as low as 150…”
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Microcrystalline silicon thin film deposition from silicon tetrafluoride: Isolating role of ion energy using tailored voltage waveform plasmas
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-02-2019)“…The energy of ions during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is known to impact material quality, but isolating this effect from other process…”
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Tailored Voltage Waveform Deposition of Microcrystalline Silicon Thin Films from Hydrogen-Diluted Silane and Silicon Tetrafluoride: Optoelectronic Properties of Films
Published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (01-08-2012)“…The use of tailored voltage waveforms (TVW's) to excite a plasma for the deposition of thin films of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) has been…”
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Plasma nanotexturing of silicon surfaces for photovoltaics applications: influence of initial surface finish on the evolution of topographical and optical properties
Published in Optics express (27-11-2017)“…Using a plasma to generate a surface texture with feature sizes on the order of tens to hundreds of nanometers ("nanotexturing") is a promising technique being…”
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Challenges in advanced characterization techniques for high Voc thin-film tandem solar cells
Published in Physica status solidi. A, Applications and materials science (01-07-2016)“…In this work we focus on two techniques developed to extract the individual open circuit voltages (Voc) of tandem devices, as well as their sub‐cell…”
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Ultrathin Ge epilayers on Si produced by low-temperature PECVD acting as virtual substrates for III-V / c-Si tandem solar cells
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-03-2022)“…Ultrathin (20 nm) epitaxial films of germanium are deposited on crystalline silicon wafers, to act as virtual substrates for the growth of III-V materials,…”
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Large Area Radial Junction Silicon Nanowire Solar Mini-Modules
Published in Scientific reports (26-01-2018)“…In this work, we introduce the demonstration of 5 × 5 cm 2 mini-modules based on radial junction silicon nanowire (RJ SiNW) devices grown by plasma-assisted…”
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Triple Radial Junction Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells with >2 V Open‐Circuit Voltage
Published in Solar RRL (01-08-2022)“…When solar cells are used as the photoanode for direct water splitting, the output voltage required typically exceeds that of a single‐junction photovoltaic…”
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Plasma-Assisted Growth of Silicon Nanowires by Sn Catalyst: Step-by-Step Observation
Published in Nanoscale research letters (01-12-2016)“…A comprehensive study of the silicon nanowire growth process has been carried out. Silicon nanowires were grown by plasma-assisted-vapor-solid method using tin…”
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Current-induced and light-induced macroscopic changes in thin film solar cells: Device degradation mechanism
Published in Solar energy (01-02-2017)“…Schematic diagram of experimental setup and crosssection structure of solar cells (left) and optical images of a-Si:H and pm-Si:H PIN layer stacks at various…”
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Unravelling a simple method for the low temperature synthesis of silicon nanocrystals and monolithic nanocrystalline thin films
Published in Scientific reports (16-01-2017)“…In this work, we present new results on the plasma processing and structure of hydrogenated polymorphous silicon (pm-Si:H) thin films. pm-Si:H thin films…”
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Quasi-fivefold symmetric electron diffraction patterns due to multiple twinning in silicon thin films grown from hexamethyldisiloxane
Published in Journal of applied crystallography (01-12-2016)“…Unusual quasi‐fivefold symmetric electron diffraction patterns are observed for silicon thin films grown by plasma‐enhanced chemical vapour deposition and…”
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Substrate versus superstrate configuration for stable thin film silicon solar cells
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (01-12-2013)“…We report on the light-induced degradation kinetics of hydrogenated polymorphous silicon (pm-Si:H) solar cells having either substrate or superstrate device…”
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Light-induced changes in silicon nanocrystal based solar cells: Modification of silicon-hydrogen bonding on silicon nanocrystal surface under illumination
Published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (01-07-2016)“…Hydrogenated polymorphous silicon (pm-Si:H) is a material consisting of a small volume fraction of nanocrystals embedded in an amorphous matrix. pm-Si:H solar…”
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Spectral response and field enhanced reverse current in a-Ge:H nip photodiodes
Published in Solar energy materials and solar cells (15-06-2007)“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of using a high Ar+H 2 dilution of GeH 4, high pressure, and low substrate temperatures in producing device-grade a-Ge:H…”
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