Modeling the spectral luminescence emission of silicon solar cells and wafers

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1038-1052

  Schinke, Carsten ^a   Hinken, David ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a,b   Bothe, Karsten ^a   Brendel, Rolf ^a,b  

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

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carrier distribution; luminescence; photon escape probability

Indexed keywords

CHARGE-CARRIER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; ESCAPE PROBABILITY; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL LUMINESCENCE; TEXTURED SURFACE;

LUMINESCENCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

LIGHT;

EID: 84880133186     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2263985     Document Type: Article

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