Modeling performance of three-dimensional nanojunction photovoltaic devices

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 002679-002682

  Wangperawong, Artit ^a   Bent, Stacey F ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CDTE; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DEVICE PHYSICS; GRAIN BOUNDARY JUNCTIONS; LOW QUALITIES; MODELING PERFORMANCE; MODELING TECHNIQUE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOJUNCTIONS; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PLANAR JUNCTIONS; PN-JUNCTION DEVICES; SOLAR POWER CONVERSION; TEST CASE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR ENERGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84861029689     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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