Determination of the effective diffusion length of silicon solar cells from photoluminescence

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Hinken, David ^a   Bothe, Karsten ^a   Ramspeck, Klaus ^a   Herlufsen, Sandra ^a   Brendel, Rolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LUMINESCENCE EMISSION; OPEN CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; PL MEASUREMENTS; SC SIGNALS; SHORT-CIRCUIT CONDITIONS; ZERO VOLTAGE;

DIFFUSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 66549116072     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3130408     Document Type: Article

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