Detailed balance efficiency limits with quasi-Fermi level variations

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1932-1939

  Bremner, Stephen P ^a   Corkish, Richard ^a   Honsberg, Christiana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FERMI LEVEL; HOT CARRIERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DETAILED BALANCE EFFICIENCY LIMIT; DRIFT TRANSPORT PROCESSES; INFINITE MOBILITY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033353965     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.791981     Document Type: Article

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