Modelling charge transport lengths in heterojunction solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 25, 2012, Pages

  Musselman, K P ^a   Ievskaya, Y ^b   MacManus Driscoll, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPLETION REGION; DIFFUSION LENGTH; DRIFT-DIFFUSION MODEL; ELECTRON DRIFT; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; THERMAL OXIDATION; THERMALLY OXIDIZED; TRANSPORT LENGTH;

ELECTRODEPOSITION; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84871724556     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4771981     Document Type: Article

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