Effective diffusion lengths for minority carriers in solar cells as determined from internal quantum efficiency analysis

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3634-3637

  Brendel, Rolf ^a   Rau, Uwe ^b  

^a BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FERMI LEVEL; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATES; INHOMOGENEOUS SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; MINORITY CARRIERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0032613844     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.369726     Document Type: Article

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