Geometrical analysis of solar cells with partial rear contacts

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 485-493

  Cuevas, Andres ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Modeling; partial rear contact solar cells

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE EVALUATION; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DEVICE STRUCTURES; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICAL REPRESENTATION; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; MAJORITY CARRIERS; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; METAL CONTACTS; MINORITY CARRIER; PASSIVATING LAYER; REAR SURFACES; SERIES RESISTANCES;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MODELS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84866736405     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2204958     Document Type: Article

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