Internal electric field and fill factor of amorphous silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1569-1574

  Stückelberger, Michael ^a   Shah, Arvind ^a   Krc, Janez ^b   Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Meillaud, Fanny ^a   Ballif, Christophe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; BAND TAIL; CARRIER DENSITY; CARRIER GENERATION; CELL PERFORMANCE; CHARGE COLLECTION; CHARGE STATE; CHARGED DEFECTS; CLASSICAL MODEL; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FIELD DEFORMATIONS; FILL FACTOR; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HIGH DENSITY; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); I-LAYER; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; INTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT INTENSITY; OUTPUT PERFORMANCE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES;

DANGLING BONDS;

EID: 78650168085     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5617122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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