Because one can easily manufacture this material to have a bandgap between 1.7 to 2.2 eV, it pairs well with lower bandgap materials intandem solar cells, including a very similar material with short-range (*) order: micro-crystalline silicon.
Light-induced degradation of this material creates dangling bonds and can be reversed by annealing, a result first brought to light by D.L. Staebler and C.R. Wronski. This material suffers from a naturally 3 high defect density that is suppressed by "hydrogenating" it. Because one can easily manufacture this material to have a bandgap between 1.7 to 2.2 eV, it pairs well with lower bandgap materials intandem solar cells, including a very similar material with short-range (*) order: micro-crystalline silicon. 6 For 10 points, name this non-crystalline form of silicon.
Light-induced degradation of this material creates dangling bonds and can be reversed by annealing, a result first brought to light by D.L. Staebler and C.R. Wronski.
hydrogenated amorphous silicon [or: a-Si:H; do not accept: "silicon"]