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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 148-160Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.373635
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Optical characterization methods were applied to a series of microcrystalline silicon thin films and solar cells deposited by the very high frequency glow discharge technique. Bulk and surface light scattering effects were analyzed. A detailed theory for evaluation of the optical absorption coefficient alpha from transmittance, reflectance and absorptance (with the help of constant photocurrent method) measurements in a broad spectral region is presented for the case of surface and bulk light scattering. The spectral dependence of alpha is interpreted in terms of defect density, disorder, crystalline/amorphous fraction and material morphology. The enhanced light absorption in microcrystalline silicon films and solar cells is mainly due to a longer optical path as the result of an efficient diffuse light scattering at the textured film surface. This light scattering effect is a key characteristic of efficient thin-film-silicon solar cells. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0021-8979(00)07313-8].
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