Modeling effective carrier lifetimes of passivated macroporous silicon layers

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1197-1202

  Ernst, Marco ^a   Brendel, Rolf ^a,b  

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

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carrier lifetime; Carrier transport; Macroporous Si; Modeling; Porous Si

Indexed keywords

BULK LIFETIME; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; MACRO POROUS SILICON; MACROPORES; MACROPOROUS; MACROPOROUS SI; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; MODELING; PORE DIAMETERS; PORE MORPHOLOGY; PORE SURFACE; POROUS SI; SURFACE PASSIVATION; SURFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITIES; THERMAL OXIDATION;

PASSIVATION; POROUS SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

CARRIER LIFETIME;

EID: 79951851024     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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