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S. Ashok
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Professor of Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. Coeditor of Semiconductor Defect Engineering: Materials, Synthetic Structures and Devices II.

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Diagram of a solar cell showing labeled layers, including a front electrical contact grid, antireflection layer, absorber layer, back junction layer, and back electrical contact layer, with arrows indicating light entering and terminals connecting to a circuit.
Solar cell, any device that directly converts the energy of light into electrical energy through the photovoltaic effect. The overwhelming majority of solar cells are fabricated from silicon—with increasing efficiency and lowering cost as the materials range from amorphous (noncrystalline) to…
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Semiconductor Defect Engineering: Volume 994 Materials, Synthetic Structures and Devices II
Semiconductor Defect Engineering: Volume 994 Materials, Synthetic Structures and Devices II (June 2014)
By S. Ashok, J. Chevallier, P. Kiesel, T. Ogino
This book, first published in 2007, focuses on the application of defects and impurities in current and emerging semiconductor technologies. The role of defects in the evolution of semiconductor technology is now recognized as one of refined control - in density, properties, spatial location, and perhaps even temporal variation during device operating lifetime. The concept of defect engineering has found numerous applications in the fabrication of semiconductors and devices with improved and/or new...
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