2nd E.C. Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference: Proceedings of the International Conference, Held at Berlin (West), 23-26 April 1979 (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Opening Session.- by the Chairman.- Opening address.- Begrussungsansprache.- Begrussungsansprache.- Keynote address: Prospects and opportunities in photovoItaies.- Discours d'ouverture: L'avenir de la conversion photovoltaique pour l'Europe.- Keynote address: Photovoltaies for developing countries.- Session 1 - Fundamental studies - Silicon.- New experimental evidence for minority carrier MIS diodes.- The influence of grain size and dopant concentration on the electrical properties of poly-crystalline silicon films.- Comprehensive explanation of efficiency limits in silicon solar cells.- Session 2 - Crystalline silicon materials.- Invited paper: Technology and economics of starting materials for low-cost silicon solar cells.- Progress on the dow corning process for solar-grade silicon.- Low-cost, high-efficiency silicon by heat exchanger method and fixed abrasive slicing technique.- Early assessment of the photovoltaic potentialities of RAD polysilicon sheets.- Wide silicon ribbon growth by capillary action shaping technique.- Invited paper: Low-cost crystalline silicon.- Potential for improved silicon ribbon growth through thermal environment control.- Ion implanted solar cells from EPG silicon ribbons.- Session 3 - Silicon cells.- Experimental optimization of the efficiency of n pp and p+ nn+ silicon solar cells.- A high volume process for silicon solar cells using solid diffusion sources.- A new diffusion process for silicon solar cells.- The effects of concentrated sunlight on silicon solar cells.- Degradation effects in silicon Schottky barrier solar cells.- Advanced thin silicon solar cell with controlled optical absorpt ance.- Effect of laser irradiation on the characteristics of implanted layers for silicon solar cells.- Improved thick-film semiconductor/solar cell contacts.- Late news paper: Recent advances in thin foil silicon solar cells.- Session 4 - Modules and economic analyses.- Progress in the field of terrestrial solar generators.- Study of sandwich type glass encapsulation.- A revised economic analysis of photovoltaic power modules.- The design of photovoltaic systems for residential applications in the United States.- Session 5 - Amorphous silicon.- Optimization studies of materials in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells.- Preparation and properties of nitrogen-doped amorphous silicon.- Evaluation of multi junction structures using amorphous Si-Ge alloys.- Schottky barriers on sputtered hydrogenated amorphous silicon: Photovoltaic properties and capacitance-voltage characteristics.- Contact formation, scaling and optimization of large-area r.f.- sputtered a-Si Schottky barrier solar cells.- The stability of amorphous silicon Schottky barrier solar cells.- Late news paper: Hydrogenated amorphous silicon Schottky- barrier diodes.- Session 6 - Compound semiconductor cells (1).- Invited paper: Appraisal of thin-film solar cells.- Interface recombination and junction field studies in the Cu2S-CdS solar cell.- EBIC and capacitance measurements on Cu2S-CdS solar cells - Stability problems.- Single crystal solar cell heterojunctions by chemical vapor deposition of CdS.- Optimal material properties for CdS/Cu2S. solar cells.- Thin-film (CdZn)S for solar cells.- Progress in the development of the thin-film MIS solar cell based on CdSe.- An S.S.M. study of thin films made by spray pyrolysis.- Session 7 - Compound semiconductor cells (2).- Invited paper: Photo-electrochemical solar cells.- CdTe homojunctions solar cells.- Oxide/semiconductor photovoltaic heterojunctions based on CdTea or InPb.- Schottky barrier grid devices on Zn3P2.- Concentration and temperature performances of GaAs-GaAlAs solar cells.- Session 8 - Space applications and testing.- Invited paper: Photovoltaic power generators in space.- Requirements for future air force satellite solar power technology.- Pulsed measurement of solar cell spectral response.- A low-cost solar simulator for testing photovoltaic terrestrial solar power cells and m