Suns-Voc and minority carrier lifetime measurements of III-V tandem solar cells

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 791-794

  Chhabra, Bhumika ^a   Jacobs, Sean ^a   Honsberg, Christiana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LIFETIME; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SILICON;

QUASI STEADY STATE PHOTOCONDUCTANCE (QSS PC); TANDEM DEVICES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749118941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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