Geometric analysis of solar cells with partial rear contacts: Comparison to 3-D simulations

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 587-589

  Cuevas, Andres ^a   Petermann, Jan H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Modeling; Partial rear contact solar cells

Indexed keywords

MODELS;

3D SIMULATIONS; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC APPROACHES; I-V CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; NUMERICAL ITERATION; REAR CONTACTS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84867553143     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2221084     Document Type: Article

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