Physical model of back line-contact front-junction solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Cuevas, Andres ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FLOW; DEVICE OPERATIONS; GEOMETRIC FORMULATION; LOCALIZED CONTACTS; METAL CONTACTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL REGIONS; PHYSICAL MODEL;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84877272415     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4800840     Document Type: Article

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