New analysis of suns-Voc and Voc(T): A simple method to quantify recombination channels in solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 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

Heterojunction; Ideality factor; Intensity; Open circuit voltage; Recombination; Solar cells; Temperature

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; TEMPERATURE;

HETEROJUNCTION EMITTERS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; IDEALITY FACTORS; INTENSITY; RECOMBINATION; RECOMBINATION CHANNELS; RECOMBINATION PARAMETERS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896454794     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6745145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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