Photogeneration and carrier recombination in graded gap Cu(In, Ga)Se2 solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2249-2254

  Dullweber, Thorsten ^a   Rau, Uwe ^a   Contreras, Miguel A ^a   Noufi, Rommel ^b   Schock, Hans Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Chalcopyrite compounds; Charge carrier processes; Conversion efficiency; Photovoltaic cell materials; Thin film devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001617980     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.887004     Document Type: Article

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