Modelling of photo- and electroluminescence of hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon solar cells

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 10-11, 2012, Pages 1963-1967

  Müller, Thomas C M ^a   Pieters, Bart E ^a   Kirchartz, Thomas ^b   Carius, Reinhard ^a   Rau, Uwe ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Band tail slope; Electroluminescence; Hydrogenation; Microcrystalline Si; Photoluminescence; Simulation; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BAND TAIL; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; DEFECT STATE; DEVICE SIMULATORS; DIRECT DETERMINATION; ELECTRICAL DEVICES; HYDROGENATED MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; IN-LINE; JUNCTION VOLTAGE; MICROCRYSTALLINE SI; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL SPLITTING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; SOLAR MODULE; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THIN FILM SILICON; VOLTAGE DIFFERENCE; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGENATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84867940268     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201200428     Document Type: Article

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