Papers and Publications

Dr. James Rand – Selected Publications and Patents

Selected Publications

  1. J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, “Experimental Use of Spectral Response of the MIS Device for Diffusion Length Measurements”, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE PVSEC, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 1985.
  2. A.M. Barnett, D.A. Fardig, R.B.Hall, J.A. Rand, D.H.Ford, “Development of Thin Silicon-Film Solar Cells on Low Cost Substrates”, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE PVSC, New Orleans, LA, May 4-8, 1987.
  3. A.M. Barnett, J.A. Rand, R.B.Hall, D.A.Fardig, “Thin Silicon-Film Solar Cells”, ISES Solar World Congress, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 1987.
  4. A.M. Barnett, J.A. Rand, F.A. Domain, D.H.Ford, C.L. Kendall, M.L. Rock, R.B.Hall, “Efficient Thin Silicon-Film Solar Cells on Low Cost Substrates”, Proceedings of the 8th E.C. PVSEC. Florence, Italy, May 1988.
  5. A.M. Barnett, F.A. Domian, B.W. Feyock, D.H.Ford , C.L. Kendall, J.A. Rand, R.B.Hall, “Development of Large Area Thin Crystalline Silicon-Film Solar Cells”, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE PVSC, Las Vegas, NV, September 1988.
  6. J.A. Rand, R.B.Hall, A.M. Barnett, “Back Surface Texture for Optically Confining Thin Silicon Films”, Proceedings of the 9th E.C. PVSC, Freiburg, Germany, September 1989.
  7. A.M. Barnett, J.A. Rand, R.B. Hall, D.H. Ford, C.L. Kendall, “Current Status of Silicon-Film Solar Cells on Ceramic Substrates”, Proceedings of the Sunshine Workshop, Japan, October, 1990.
  8. J.A. Rand, R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, “Light Trapping in Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells”, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE PVSEC, Kissimmee, FL, May 1990.
  9. A.M. Barnett, R.B. Hall, J.A. Rand, C.L. Kendall, D.H. Ford, “Thin Film Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells”, Solar Energy Materials, Vol. 23 (1991), pg. 164-174.
  10. J.A. Rand, D.H. Ford, C. Bacon, A.E. Ingram, T.R. Ruffins, R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, “Silicon-Film Product II: Initial Light-Trapping Results”, Proceedings of the 10th E.C. PVSEC, Lisbon, Portugal, April 1991.
  11. J.A. Rand, P.A. Basore, “Light Trapping Silicon Solar Cells Experimental Results and Analysis”, Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE PVSC, Las Vegas, NV, October 1991.
  12. J.A. Rand, J.E.Cotter, A.E. Ingram, T.H. Lampos, T.R. Ruffins, R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, “Development of Monolithically Integrated Silicon-Film Modules”, 11th PVARD Meeting, May 1992.
  13. J.A. Rand, J.E.Cotter, A.E. Ingram, T.R. Ruffins, K.P. Shreve, R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, “Monolithically Integrated Silicon-Film Photovoltaic Modules”, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE PVSC, Louisville, KY, May 1993.
  14. A.M. Barnett, R.B. Hall, J.A. Rand, “Thin Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells”, MRS Bulletin, October 1993.
  15. Y. Bai, J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, L.C. DiNetta, “Low Temperature Back Surface Passivation for Thin Silicon Solar Cells”, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE PVSC, Louisville, KY, May 1993.
  16. A.M. Barnett, S.R. Collins, J.E. Cotter, D.H. Ford, R.B. Hall, J.A. Rand, “Polycrystalline Silicon-Film Solar Cells: Present and Future”, Progress in Photovoltaics, Vol. 2, pg. 163-170, 1994.
  17. J.A. Rand, J.E. Cotter, C.J.Thomas, A.E. Ingram, Y.B. Bai, T.R. Ruffins, A.M. Barnett, “Silicon on Graphite Cloth”, Proceedings of The 1st World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Waikoloa, Hawaii, December, 1994.
  18. J.E.Cotter, A.M. Barnett, D.H. Ford, M.A. Goetz, R.B. Hall, A.E. Ingram, J.A. Rand, T.R. Ruffins, C.J.Thomas, “Advanced Silicon-Film Solar Cell Design and Development”, 13th E.C. PVSC, Nice, France, October 1995.
  19. J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, J.C. Checchi, S.R. Collins, D.H. Ford, R.B. Hall, C.L. Kendall, S.M. Lampo, A.M. Trabant, “Large-Area Silicon-Film Manufacturing”, Proceedings of the 13th NREL Program Review Meeting, Lakewood, CO, 1995.
  20. J.E. Cotter, A.M. Barnett, D.H. Ford, R.B. Hall, A.E. Ingram, J.A. Rand, T.R. Ruffins, K.P. Shreve, C.J. Thomas, “Polycrystalline Silicon-Film Thin-Film Solar Cells: Advanced Products”, Progress in Photovoltaics, Vol. 3, pg. 351-358, 1995.
  21. A.E. Ingram, A.M.Barnett, J.E.Cotter, D.H. Ford, R.B. Hall, J. A. Rand, C.J.Thomas, “13% Silicon-Film Solar Cells on Low-Cost Barrier-Coated Substrates”, Proceedings of the 25th IEEE PVSC, Washington, DC, May 1996.
  22. D.H. Ford, A.M. Barnett, J.C. Checchi, S.R. Collins, R.B. Hall, C.L. Kendall, S.M. Lampo, J.A. Rand, “675-cm2 Silicon-Film Solar Cells”, Technical Digest of the International PVSEC. Miyazaki, Japan, November, 1996.
  23. R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, J.E. Cotter, D.H. Ford, A.E. Ingram, J.A. Rand, “Advanced, Thin, Polycrystalline Silicon-Film Solar Cells on Low-Cost Substrates”, Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 1996.
  24. D.H. Ford, J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, E.J. Delledonne, A.E. Ingram, R.B. Hall, “Development of Light-Trapped, Interconnected, Silicon-Film Modules”, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE PVSC, Anaheim, CA, Sept. 1997.
  25. J.A. Rand, Y. Bai, J.C. Checchi, J.S.Culik, D.H. Ford, C.L. Kendall, P.E. Sims, R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, “Large-Area Silicon-Film Manufacturing Under the PVMaT Program”, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE PVSC, Anaheim, CA, 1997.
  26. J. Sites, J.A. Rand, L.L. Kazmerski, J.E. Phillips, “Device and Materials Characterization in Manufacturing”, Progress in Photovoltaics, Vol 5., pg. 371-3781, 1997.
  27. Y.Bai, D.H.Ford, J.A. Rand, R.B. Hall, A.M.Barnett, “16.6% Efficient Silicon-Film Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells”, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE PVSC, Anaheim, CA, 1997.
  28. D.H. Ford, J.A. Rand, E.J. Delledonne, A.E. Ingram, J.C. Bisaillon, B.W. Feyock, M.G. Mauk, R.B. Hall, A.M. Barnett, “High Current, Thin Silicon-on-Ceramic Solar Cell”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. ED-46, No. 10, October 1999.
  29. J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, “The Ultimate Solar Cell: Thin, Light-Trapped Crystalline Silicon”, Proceedings of the NCPV PROM Meeting, Denver, Co, April 2000.
  30. S. Ressler, J. Bower, J. Culik, C. Dunne, J.A. Rand, “Large Area Roof-Mount Silicon Film Module and Grid-Connected Rooftop System Design”, Proceedings of the IEEE PVSC, Alaska, September 2000.
  31. J.C. Bisaillon, J.R. Cummings, J.S. Culik, J.D. Lesko, P.E. Sims, J. A. Rand, “Non-Traditional Light Sources for Solar Cell and Module Testing”, Proceedings of the IEEE PVSC, Alaska, September 2000.
  32. J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, R.B. Hall, “Silicon-Film Solar Cells and Modules: 9MW Pilot Scale Manufacturing Plant Experiences”, Proceedings of the World Renewable Energy Conference, Brighton, UK, July 2000.
  33. A.M. Barnett, J.A. Rand, R.B.Hall, J.C.Bisaillon, E.J.Delledonne, B.W.Feyock, D.H.Ford, A.E.Ingram, M.G.Mauk, J.P.Yaskoff, P.E.Sims, “High Current, Thin Silicon-on-Ceramic Solar Cell”, Solar Energy Materials, Volume 66, Issues 1-4,February 2001, pages 45-50.
  34. J.S. Culik, F. Faller, I.S. Goncharovsky, J.A. Rand, A.M. Barnett, “Progress on 15-MW Single-Thread Silicon-Film Solar Cell Manufacturing Systems”, Progress in Photovoltaics, Vol 10:119-128,2002.
  35. J.A. Rand, G. Rozgonyi, J.Lu, R. Reedy, “Characterization of Silicon-Film Sheet Material”, Proceedings of the 29th PVSC, New Orleans, LA, May, 2002.
  36. A.A. Istratov, T. Buonassisi, R.J. McDonald, A.R. Smith, R. Schindler, J.A. Rand, J.P. Kalejs, E.R. Weber, “Metal Content of multicrystalline silicon for solar cells and its impact on minority carrier diffusion length”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol 94, Number 10, 6552-6559,2003.
  37. R. Zhang, E. E. van Dyk, G. A. Rozgonyi, J. A. Rand, R. Jonczyk, “Investigation of foreign particles in polycrystalline silicon using infrared microscopy”,
    Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Volume 82, Issue 4, 30 May 2004, Pages 577-585
  38. Michael Mauk, Paul Sims, James Rand, Allen Barnett, “Thin silicon solar cells Solar Cells”, 2005, Pages 121-161
  39. Jinggang Lu, George Rozgonyi, James Rand, Ralf Jonczyk , “Secondary phase inclusions in polycrystalline sheet silicon”, Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 269, Issues 2-4, 1 September 2004, Pages 599-605
  40. Michael Mauk, Paul Sims, James Rand, Allen Barnett, “Thin Silicon Solar Cells”, Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics, 2003, Pages 185-225
  41. L. Tsakalakos, J. Balch, J. Fronheiser, M-Y. Shih, S.F. LeBoeuf, M. Pietrzykowski, P.J. Codella, O. Sulima, J. Rand, A.D. Kumar, and B.A. Korevaar, “Interaction of Light with Si Nanowire Films”, Proc. 4th World Conf. Photovolt. Energy Conv., vol. 1., p. 111-113 (2006).
  42. L. Tsakalakos, J. Balch, J. Fronheiser, M-Y. Shih, S.F. LeBoeuf, M. Pietrzykowski, P.J. Codella, O. Sulima, J. Rand, A.D. Kumar, and U. Rapol, “Strong Broadband Optical Absorption in Si Nanowire Films”, Journal of Nanophotonics, 17 July 2007, vol. 1, p. 013552. [doi: 10.1117/1.2768999]
  43. L. Tsakalakos, J. Balch, J. Fronheiser, O. Sulima, and J. Rand, “Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells”, Applied Physics Letters 91, 233117, 3 December 2007. [also published in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology]
  44. L. Tsakalakos, J. Balch, J. Fronheiser, O. Sulima, and J. Rand, “Silicon nanowire solar cells: device physics, fabrication, and optoelectronic properties”, Proc. 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion Conference, 1AP.1.3 (2008).

US Patents

5,057,163   Deposited Silicon-Film Solar Cell
5,266,125   Interconnected Silicon Film Solar Cell Array
5,336,335   Columnar-Grained Polycrystalline Solar Cell and process of manufacture
5,496,416   Columnar-Grained Polycrystalline Solar Cell and process of manufacture
6,111,191   Columnar-Grained Polycrystalline Solar Cell and process of manufacture
6,207,891   Columnar-Grained Polycrystalline Solar Cell and process of manufacture
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6,420,643   Silicon Thin-Film Integrated Solar Cell and Method of Manufacturing the Same
6,362,021   Silicon thin-film, integrated solar cell, module, and methods of manufacturing the same
7,456,084   Method of using a setter having a recess in manufacturing a net-shape semiconductor wafer
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8,334,194   Methods and apparatus for manufacturing semiconductor wafers

US Patent Applications

2014/0616373   Method and Equipment for Testing Photovoltaic Arrays
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2010/0012468   Material handling system and method
2009/0280336   Semiconductor sheets and methods of fabricating the same
2008/0308970   Process for melting silicon powders
2007/0034251   Semiconductor elements having zones of reduced oxygen
2006/0048698   Methods and systems for purifying elements
2005/0176218   Method and apparatus for manufacturing net shape semiconductor wafers