The influence of parasitic effects on injection-level-dependent lifetime data

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2960-2968

  Chen, Florence W ^a   Cotter, Jeffrey E ^a   Abbott, Malcolm D ^a   Li, Tsu Tsung A ^a,b   Fisher, Kate C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Photoconductivity; Photoluminescence (PL); Photovoltaic cells

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

DATA FITTING; EDGE RECOMBINATION;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION;

EID: 36248932065     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.906970     Document Type: Article

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