Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy for in-line optical characterization of crystalline solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1342-1347

  Berdebes, Dionisis ^a   Bhosale, Jayprakash ^a   Montgomery, Kyle H ^b   Wang, Xufeng ^a   Ramdas, Anant K ^a   Woodall, Jerry M ^b   Lundstrom, Mark S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystalline materials; photoluminescence; photovoltaic cells

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SOLAR CELLS; DRIFT-DIFFUSION NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; GAAS SOLAR CELLS; INCIDENT ILLUMINATION; MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 84884671269     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2278884     Document Type: Article

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