Double sided minority carrier collection in silicon solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 711-717

  Van Kerschaver, Emmanuel ^a   Zechner, Christoph ^b   Dicker, Jochen ^c  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SOLAR CELLS;

MINORITY CARRIER COLLECTION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0033894086     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.830984     Document Type: Article

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