Improved quantitative description of Auger recombination in crystalline silicon

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Richter, Armin ^a   Glunz, Stefan W ^a   Werner, Florian ^b   Schmidt, Jan ^b   Cuevas, Andres ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

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

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84867467918     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.165202     Document Type: Article

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