Determination of the minority carrier diffusion length in compositionally graded Cu (In,Ga) Se2 solar cells using electron beam induced current

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Brown, Gregory ^a   Faifer, Vladimir ^a   Pudov, Alex ^a   Anikeev, Sergey ^a   Bykov, Eugene ^a   Contreras, Miguel ^b   Wu, Junqiao ^c,d  

^a Nanosolar Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COLLECTION; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; COMPOSITION GRADIENT; CU(IN , GA)SE; ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED CURRENT; ENERGY DEPENDENT; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; MINORITY CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; QUASI-ELECTRIC FIELD; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

ELECTRON BEAMS; GALLIUM; SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 74549119459     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3291046     Document Type: Article

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