Assessment of the illumination dependency of Al 2O 3 and SiO 2 rear-passivated p-type silicon solar cells

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 259-261

  Vermang, Bart ^a,b   Cornagliotti, Emanuele ^a   Prajapati, Victor ^a,b   John, Joachim ^a   Poortmans, Jef ^a,b   Mertens, Robert ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Illumination dependency; Silicon; Solar cells; Surface passivation

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; CELL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CELL EFFICIENCY; CELL TYPES; ENERGY OUTPUT; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; FUNCTION OF TIME; ILLUMINATION LEVELS; P-TYPE SI; POSITIVELY CHARGED; SEATTLE; SURFACE PASSIVATION; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

ALUMINUM; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PASSIVATION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON OXIDES;

EID: 84862268982     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201206154     Document Type: Article

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