Piezo-photovoltaic effect in thin-film CDS/CDTE solar cells

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 491-494

  Drayton, Jennifer ^a   Mitra, M ^a   Vasko, A ^a   Kormanyos, K ^b   Shvydka, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Solar Fields   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; MOLYBDENUM; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

PIEZO-PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECT; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749105547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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