Absorption coefficients of intermediate-band media

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Levy, Michael Y ^a   Honsberg, Christiana ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ZERO; ABSORBED PHOTONS; ABSORBING MEDIUM; ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ABSORPTION EDGES; BALANCE EQUATIONS; BAND GAPS; BLUE SHIFT; CONCENTRATION OF; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EQUILIBRIUM ABSORPTION; EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES; FERMI-DIRAC FUNCTION; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; INTERMEDIATE STATE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PAPER MODELS; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; WAVE-VECTOR DISPERSION;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ENERGY GAP; FERMIONS; HOLE CONCENTRATION; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR ABSORBERS;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 70350123082     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3213337     Document Type: Article

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