Limiting Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 711-716

  Tiedje, Tom ^a   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a   Cody, George D ^a   Brooks, Bonnie G ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON - CHARGE CARRIERS;

AUGER RECOMBINATION; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; RADIATIVE LOSSES; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION LIMIT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0021422388     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1984.21594     Document Type: Article

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