Reformulation of solar cell physics to facilitate experimental separation of recombination pathways

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Grover, Sachit ^a   Li, Jian V ^a   Young, David L ^a   Stradins, Paul ^a   Branz, Howard M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROXIMATION; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; CU (IN ,GA)SE; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; INTERFACE REGIONS; POLYCRYSTALLINE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84884195383     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4819728     Document Type: Article

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