Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films for Solar Cells via Metal-Induced Layer Exchange Crystallization
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Solar photovoltaics (PV) has the potential to take center stage in global energy in the future [...]
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OpenAlex topics: Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies · Thin-Film Transistor Technologies · Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
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Affiliations
Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Department of Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Funding
Russian Science Foundation · IT SB RAS
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