Application of the SILVACO/ATLAS software package in modeling and optimization of state-of-the-art photovoltaic devices

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Michael, Sherif ^a   Michalopoulos, Panayiotis ^b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 0036976559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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