Reduction of minority carrier recombination at silicon surfaces and contacts using organic heterojunctions

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 001681-001685

  Avasthi, Sushobhan ^a   Vertelov, Grigory ^a   Schwartz, Jeffrey ^a   Sturm, James C ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; MINORITY CARRIER; ORGANIC HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC LAYERS; ORGANIC SMALL MOLECULE; PHENANTHRENEQUINONE; RECOMBINATION VELOCITY; SILICON (100); SILICON SURFACES; SURFACE PASSIVATION; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; WIDE BAND GAP;

PASSIVATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 77951565522     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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