Carrier lifetime as a developmental and diagnostic tool in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1295-1298

  Bowden, S ^a   Das, U K ^a   Hegedus, S S ^a   Birkmire, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CARRIER LIFETIME; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

CRYSTALLINE SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749083935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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