Correlation between lifetime curve and performance of amorphous silicon/ crystalline silicon heterostructure solar cell

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1232-1237

  Ghosh, Kunal ^a   Herasimenka, Stanislau ^a   Dauksher, Bill ^a   Bowden, Stuart ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

A Si c Si heterostructure; Detailed balance; Efficiency limit; Lifetime measurement

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

A-SI/C-SI HETEROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; DETAILED BALANCE; EFFICIENCY LIMITS; LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; RECOMBINATION COEFFICIENT; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; RECOMBINATION PROCESS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896442072     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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