Particle conservation in the hot-carrier solar cell

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 277-285

  Wurfel P ^a,b   Brown, A S ^a   Humphrey, T E ^a   Green, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hot electrons; Impact ionisation; Solar cells; Third generation photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; FERMI LEVEL; HOLE MOBILITY; HOT CARRIERS; IMPACT IONIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRON PHOTON SCATTERINGS; HOT ELECTRONS; THIRD GENERATION PHOTOVOLTAICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 20444409195     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.584     Document Type: Article

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