Understanding the Potential and Limitations of Dilute Nitride Alloys for Solar Cells

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Abstract

Dilute nitride alloys provide a powerful tool for engineering the band gap and lattice constant of III-V alloys. However, nitrogen degrades the performance of GaAs solar cells. This project seeks to understand and demonstrate the limits of performance of GaInNAs alloys by (a) correlating deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) data with device performance and (b) using molecular beam epitaxy(MBE) to reduce background impurity concentrations.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program Review Meeting - Denver, Colorado
Duration: 7 Nov 200510 Nov 2005

Conference

Conference2005 DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program Review Meeting
CityDenver, Colorado
Period7/11/0510/11/05

Bibliographical note

Presented at the 2005 DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program Review Meeting held November 7-10, 2005 in Denver, Colorado. Also included in the proceedings available on CD-ROM (DOE/GO-102006-2245; NREL/CD-520-38557)

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-520-38998

Keywords

  • dilute nitride alloys
  • NREL
  • photovoltaics (PV)
  • PV
  • solar

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