The paper reports on the effects of a proton irradiation campaign on a series of thin-film silicon solar cells (single-and double-junction). The effect of subsequent thermal annealing on solar cells degraded by proton irradiation is investigated. A low-temperature annealing behaviour can be observed (at temperatures around 100 to 160 C) for microcrystalline silicon solar cells. To further explore this effect, a second proton irradiation campaign has been carried out, but this time on microcrystalline silicon layers. The effect of proton irradiation and subsequent thermal annealing on the optical and electronic properties of microcrystalline silicon is, thus, thoroughly investigated.
A new device called "Solant" (for SOLar cellANTenna) is presented in this paper. It is a combination of thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells and flat printed antennas.A proton irradiation campaign has also been carried out on a series of n-i-p amorphous and p-i-n micromorph [microcrystalline (µc-Si:H) and amorphous (a-Si:H)] silicon tandem solar cells. The effect of thermal annealing on solar cells degraded by proton irradiation is investigated.
In an earlier paper [l], the authors had reported on the results of a proton irradiation campaign on a series of thin-film silicon solar cells (single-and double-junction). There, a low-temperature annealing was discovered for the microcrystalline silicon solar cells. The present paper links these earlier results with recent investigations on newly irradiated individual microcrystalline layers: the effect of proton irradiation and subsequent thermal annealing steps on the optical and electronic properties of these microcrystalline silicon layers is investigated in detail and is shown to correlate well with the results reported earlier for full cells.
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