I-V characterization of tunnel diodes and multijunction solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2216-2222

  Guter, Wolfgang ^a   Bett, Andreas W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Current voltage (I V) characteristic; Multijunction solar cell; Tunnel diode

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HYSTERESIS; TUNNEL DIODES;

INTERNAL SERIES RESISTANCES; MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; TUNNELING CURRENT DENSITY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33947150086     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2006.881051     Document Type: Article

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