Numerical modeling of energy balance equations in quantum well Al xGa 1-xAs/GaAs p-i-n photodiodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 915-921

  Fardi, Hamid Z ^a,b   Winston, David W ^a,c   Hayes, Russell E ^a,d   Hanna, Mark C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Hot electron solar cells; P i n; Quantum well; Sim Windows

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001069693     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.841221     Document Type: Article

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