Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-cell Manufacturing: Volume 1323

Brief Description: A forum for exploring advanced materials processing for manufacturing of solar photovoltaics and new research. Brief Description: "Symposium C, "Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar Cell Manufacturing," at the 2011 MRS Spring meeting held April 25-29 in San Francisco, California"--P. ix. Table of Contents: Part I. Solution-Based Processes: 1. Analysis and control of plating baths in the electrodeposition of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) films with ion chromatography Serdar Aksu; 2. Pore-opening process in nanoporous AAO membranes for electrodeposition of semiconducting nanowires Sovannary Phok; Part II. Transparent Conductors and Coatings: 3. Recent progress in transparent conducting materials by use of metallic grids on metal oxides Joop van Deelen; 4. Band energy structure arrangement for organic solar cells with metalized deoxyribonucleic acid strands on anode electrode Ali Bilge Guvenc; 5. Roll-to-roll front contact patterning by wire shading Rainer Merz; 6. Large scale deposition of transparent conducting oxides by hollow cathode sputtering Alan Delahoy; 7. Effect of working distance on properties of sputtered molybdenum films Ashwani Kaul; 8. Forming gradient multilayer (GML) nano films for photovoltaic and energy storage applications Boris Gilman; 9. Optical layers and materials for next generation solar cells Ping Lee; 10. Rapid plasma-assisted, ambient-pressure deposition of conformal nanocrystalline zinc oxide thin films for solar cell applications Kwok Siong Teh; 11. Systematic study of methanol addition to enhance the film development of APCVD tin oxide Joop van Deelen; 12. High deposition rate of low resistive and transparent ZnO: Al on glass with an industrial moving belt APCVD reactor Andrea Illiberi; 13. Cost effective fabrication of wafer scale nanoholes for solar cells application Charles Surya; 14. Current collecting grids for R2R processed organic solar cells Robert Abbel; 15. Electrospun composite nanofiber transparent conductor layer for solar cells Justin Ritchie; Part III. Silicon Solar Cells: 16. Silver solar cell technology: pushing the material boundaries Evan Franklin; 17. Comparative study on manufacturability of selective emitter and double printing on mono-Si PV cells Yong Liu; 18. High throughput, low cost deposition of alumina passivation layers by spatial atomic layer deposition Ad Vermeer; 19. Evidence and characterization of crystallographic defect and material quality after SLIM-cut process Alex Masolin; 20. Atomistic simulations of the silicon surface structure at the interface of silver thick film contacts on n-type silicon Stefan Kontermann; Part IV. Multi-Component Thin Film Manufacturing: 21. High efficiency sputtered CdS/CdTe cells without CdCl2 activation Naba Paudel; 22. Characterization of thin film CdTe photovoltaic materials deposited by high plasma density magnetron sputtering John Walls; 23. Fabrication of improved p-AgGaSe2/n-Si heterojunction solar cells on optimum quality thermally evaporated AgGaSe2 thin films Krishna Mandal; 24. Application of a dual-spectral-range, divergent-beam spectroscopic ellipsometer for high-speed mapping of large-area, laterally-inhomogeneous, photovoltaic multilayers Miklos Fried; 25. Structural study of CIGS2 thin film absorbers using EBSD technique Ashwani KaulMarc Notes: Symposium C, Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar Cell Manufacturing, at the 2011 MRS Spring meeting held April 25-29 in San Francisco, California--P. ix.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.