摘要:
There is disclosed a polycrystalline silicon solar cell, utilizing a continuous polycrystalline silicon film consisting of single crystals grown from a plurality of small nucleation surfaces provided on a non-nucleation surface. The semiconductor junction, providing the photoelectromotive force of the solar cell, is formed on the single crystals, avoiding the areas of grain boundaries formed by mutual contact of the single crystals, in order to eliminate the drawbacks resulting from such boundaries. The semiconductor junction is formed by masking the areas of the grain boundaries with a suitable masking material, such as photoresist.
摘要:
A crystalline solar cell is formed by growing single crystals on respective plural nucleation areas provided on a non-nucleation surface in such a manner that the neighboring single crystals do not have a crystal grain boundary therebetween. The solar cell comprises an insulation layer having an aperture formed on each of said single crystals. A semiconductor junction is formed at each single crystal at the respective aperture.
摘要:
A solar cell has a polycrystalline silicon layer formed on a metal substrate. The crystal orientation of the crystal grains of the silicon layer is regulated in the film thickness direction.
摘要:
A functional zinc oxide deposited thin film having high light permeability and low resistivity can be obtained at a low temperature of about 200.degree. C. on an inexpensive substrate such as glass by a method of activating a starting material gas by means of activation energy, in a space different from a film-forming space thereby forming a precursor contributing to the formation of a deposited film, activating a starting material gas in a space different from the film-forming space and the space just-mentioned above by means of activation energy thereby forming an active species that chemically reacts with the precursor, and introducing the precursor and the active species into the film-forming space, thereby depositing a film, wherein the starting material gas for forming the precursor is an alkyl zinc compound and the starting material for forming the active species is an oxygen gas or an ozone gas. This enables mass production of photovoltaic devices at high efficiency using a PN junction or PIN junction or high performance flat display device using liquid crystals, by which practical provision of power sources for domestic equipments or power sources for electric power appliance or large area display device can be obtained at a reduced cost.
摘要:
An electron-emitting device includes an electroconductive member and a lanthanum boride layer on the electroconductive member and further includes an oxide layer between the electroconductive member and the lanthanum boride layer. The oxide layer can contain a lanthanum element. The lanthanum boride layer can be overlaid with a lanthanum oxide layer.
摘要:
Metal-grade silicon is melted and solidified in a mold to form a plate-shaped silicon layer and a crystalline silicon layer is made thereon, thereby providing a cheap solar cell without a need for a slicing step.
摘要:
This invention provides an inexpensive polycrystalline silicon solar cell having a large grain size polycrystalline semiconductor layer grown on a low-cost metallurgical grade (MG) silicon substrate, and a process for its production. The polycrystalline silicon solar cell comprises a MG-silicon substrate, a metal oxide layer formed thereon and a polycrystalline silicon layer formed on the metal oxide layer. The process for producing the polycrystalline silicon solar cell comprises the steps of i) depositing the metal oxide layer on the MG-silicon substrate, ii) depositing a silicon layer on the surface of the metal oxide layer, iii) depositing a cap layer on the surface of the silicon layer and melting the silicon layer by heating from the upper part of the cap layer, followed by solidification to form a polycrystalline silicon layer, and iv) removing the cap layer and forming a semiconductor junction on the surface of the polycrystalline silicon layer.
摘要:
The following method is provided: a method of readily fabricating an electron-emitting device, coated with a low-work function material, having good electron-emitting properties with high reproducibility such that differences in electron-emitting properties between electron-emitting devices are reduced. Before a structure is coated with the low-work function material, a metal oxide layer is formed on the structure.
摘要:
A method for producing semiconductor thin films in which the semiconductor thin films are allowed to grow on a plurality of substrates by dipping the plurality of substrates into a solution filled in a crucible, the solution containing a semiconductor as a solute, while moving the same in the solution. An angle between a direction of a normal line on a central portion of a growing surface of each substrate and the direction of the movement of the substrates is set to be in 87 degrees or less and the movement of the substrates generates a flow of the solution.
摘要:
In order to provide a low cost solar cell which has a high quality, little stressed polycrystalline silicon semiconductor layer of large crystal sizes on a low cost metal substrate and to provide a production process therefor, the solar cell has a metal layer, a metal oxide layer, and a polycrystalline silicon semiconductor layer formed in this order on the substrate, and the production process therefor comprises a step of depositing the metal layer on the substrate, a step of depositing the metal oxide layer on the metal layer, a step of depositing the semiconductor layer on the metal oxide layer, a step of depositing a cap layer on the surface of the semiconductor layer and fusing and solidifying the semiconductor layer by radiant heating from above the cap layer to form the polycrystalline semiconductor layer, and a step of removing the cap layer.