Modulated electroluminescence technique for determination of the minority carrier lifetime of solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 631-634

  Khatavkar, Sanchit ^a   Kulasekaran, M ^a   Kannan, C V ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^b   Nair, Pradeep ^a   Arora, B M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Moser Baer India Limited   (India)

Author keywords

Effective lifetime; Emission intensity; Modulated electroluminescence; Open circuit voltage; Suns Voc

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILICON;

EFFECTIVE LIFETIME; EMISSION INTENSITY; EVOLUTIONARY IMPROVEMENT; HETERO-INTERFACES; HETEROJUNCTION WITH INTRINSIC THIN LAYERS; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; SUNS-VOC;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896460653     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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