The group's patent also lists several other semiconductor multijunction compositions in addition to amorphous silicon.
The first thin film technology to be extensively developed and manufactured was amorphous silicon.
This light induced degradation is the major disadvantage of amorphous silicon as a photovoltaic material.
Stacking one or more thinner layers of amorphous silicon together with other materials to form a multijunction solar cell.
In amorphous silicon this long range order is not present.
Moreover, not all the atoms within amorphous silicon are fourfold coordinated.
The over 400,000 panels are of amorphous silicon thin-film photovoltaic technology.
A third method for crystallizing amorphous silicon is the use of thermal plasma jet.
This step became necessary since evaporated, amorphous silicon did break at oxide steps.
It uses a thin film of amorphous silicon sandwiched between two pieces of glass.
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