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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Liyou Yang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Liangfan Chen, Langhorne, PA (US);
Assignee:
Amoco/Enron Solar, Newtown, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
136249 ; 136258 ; 257440 ; 257458 ; 438 74 ; 438 96 ; 438 97 ; 438485 ;
Abstract
Attractive multi-junction solar cells and single junction solar cells with excellent conversion efficiency can be produced with a microcrystalline tunnel junction, microcrystalline recombination junction or one or more microcrystalline doped layers by special plasma deposition processes which includes plasma etching with only hydrogen or other specified etchants to enhance microcrystalline growth followed by microcrystalline. nucleation with a doped hydrogen-diluted feedstock.