Two advances toward inexpensive film-Si photovoltaics on metal foils: large oriented Si grains grown epitaxially on RABiTS NiW foils and heteroepitaxial silicon solar cells.
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Heteroepitaxial film crystal silicon on Al2O3: new route to inexpensive crystal silicon photovoltaics
Charles W. Teplin, M. Parans Paranthaman, Thomas R. Fanning, Kirstin Alberi, Lee Heatherly, Sung-Hun Wee, Kyunghoon Kim, Frederick A. List, Jerry Pineau, Jon Bornstein, Karen Bowers, Dominic F. Lee, Claudia Cantoni, Steve Hane, Paul Schroeter, David L. Young, Eugene Iwaniczko, Kim M. Jones and Howard M. Branz
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01555A