High-Efficiency Silicon minMIS Solar Cells—Design and Experimental Results

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1980, Pages 737-745

  Godfrey, R Bruce ^a   Green, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MIS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0019007137     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1980.19930     Document Type: Article

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