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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Salford
Control of tin oxide film morphology by addition of hydrocarbons to the chemical vapour deposition process
This paper showed the effect on the morphology and optical properties of thin film SnO2:F of introducing hydrocarbon additives during the deposition process. The control over these properties was critical to our later work using SnO2:F as the front electrical contact for the production of high quality Si thin film tandem solar cells [see doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2011.05.069], conference presentations [Forum New Materials, Montecatino 2010] and invited seminar, Sheffield Hallam 2013]. Also a patent has been taken out on this process [EP2336388 A1 Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG, DWSheel] and an EC grant has resulted [FP7 NMP 309530].