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20. F. Meillaud-Sculati, Microcrystalline silicon solar cells: theory, diagnosis and stability, Chap. 3,
Ph.D. thesis, “Faculté des Sciences” of the University of Neuchâtel (2006)
21. S. Rühle, Tabulated values of the Shockley-Queisser limit for single-junction solar cells. Sol.
Energy 130, 139–147 (2016)
22. E. Maruyama, A. Terakawa, M. Taguchi, Y. Yoshimine, D. Ide, T. Baba, M. Shima, H. Sakata,
M. Tanaka, Sanyo’s challenges to the development of high-efficiency HIT solar cells and the
expansion of HIT business, in Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (IEEE), pp. 1455–1460
23. A. Virtuani, D. Pavanello, G. Friesen, Overview of temperature coefficients of different thin
film photovoltaic technologies, in Proceedings of the 22nd EU PVSEC Conference (Milano,
2007)
Arvind Shah is the Founder of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PV-Lab), at the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT), in
Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
PV Lab Neuchâtel has done pioneering work in the establishment of low-cost production methods for solar cells based on
silicon: It introduced a novel plasma-assisted deposition method
called “VHF deposition” permitting a significant increase in the
deposition rate for thin-film silicon layers. It also introduced
microcrystalline silicon, deposited by VHF plasma, and with
very low oxygen content, as novel absorber layer, within thinfilm solar cells.
From 1979 to 2005, Arvind was Professor at the University
of Neuchâtel. From 1987 to 2005, he was additionally part-time
professor at the EPFL Lausanne.
In 1975 he founded and co-directed the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT) at the Indian Institute
of Science in Bangalore. CEDT is now one of India’s leading
University Centres in the field of Electronics.
Since 2006, Arvind has been active as scientific consultant to
the PV Lab and to various Industries, in Europe, India and the
USA.
Arvind received the Swiss Solar Prize, together with
Johannes Meier in 2005. He received the Becquerel Award in
2007.
A. Shah
20. F. Meillaud-Sculati, Microcrystalline silicon solar cells: theory, diagnosis and stability, Chap. 3,
Ph.D. thesis, “Faculté des Sciences” of the University of Neuchâtel (2006)
21. S. Rühle, Tabulated values of the Shockley-Queisser limit for single-junction solar cells. Sol.
Energy 130, 139–147 (2016)
22. E. Maruyama, A. Terakawa, M. Taguchi, Y. Yoshimine, D. Ide, T. Baba, M. Shima, H. Sakata,
M. Tanaka, Sanyo’s challenges to the development of high-efficiency HIT solar cells and the
expansion of HIT business, in Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on
Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (IEEE), pp. 1455–1460
23. A. Virtuani, D. Pavanello, G. Friesen, Overview of temperature coefficients of different thin
film photovoltaic technologies, in Proceedings of the 22nd EU PVSEC Conference (Milano,
2007)
Arvind Shah is the Founder of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PV-Lab), at the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT), in
Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
PV Lab Neuchâtel has done pioneering work in the establishment of low-cost production methods for solar cells based on
silicon: It introduced a novel plasma-assisted deposition method
called “VHF deposition” permitting a significant increase in the
deposition rate for thin-film silicon layers. It also introduced
microcrystalline silicon, deposited by VHF plasma, and with
very low oxygen content, as novel absorber layer, within thinfilm solar cells.
From 1979 to 2005, Arvind was Professor at the University
of Neuchâtel. From 1987 to 2005, he was additionally part-time
professor at the EPFL Lausanne.
In 1975 he founded and co-directed the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT) at the Indian Institute
of Science in Bangalore. CEDT is now one of India’s leading
University Centres in the field of Electronics.
Since 2006, Arvind has been active as scientific consultant to
the PV Lab and to various Industries, in Europe, India and the
USA.
Arvind received the Swiss Solar Prize, together with
Johannes Meier in 2005. He received the Becquerel Award in
2007.