Effect of material inhomogeneity on the open-circuit voltage of string ribbon Si solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2243-2249

  Nakayashiki, Kenta ^b   Meemongkolkiat, Vichai ^b   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective diffusion length; Multicrystalline Si (mc Si); Saturation current density

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION LENGTH; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON (MC-SI); SATURATION CURRENT DENSITY;

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 33747163757     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.856789     Document Type: Article

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