Materials and new processing technologies for photovoltaics

This book describes the papers presented in the meetings of processing technologies of materials and photovoltaics. The subjects discussed were: Photovoltaic activities in Japanese sunshine project; defects of silicon alloys; photovoltaic systems; deposition technologies; silicon photovoltaic manufacturing technology; problems of photovoltaic research; amorphous substrates for solar cells; increased efficiency for single and multijunction polycrystalline thin-film solar cells; electrical and optical properties of aluminium prepared by spray products; new technology of materials; thin films on recrystallized germanium substrates; and quality of epitaxial solar cells; and application of cold crucible technology.