Photon recycling and Shockley's diode equation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 4067-4075

  Marti A ^a   Balenzategui, J L ^a,b   Reyna, R F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; SOLAR CELLS;

LIMITING EFFICIENCY; PHOTON RECYCLING EFFECTS; SHOCKLEY DIODE EQUATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0031249955     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.365717     Document Type: Article

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