Weak light performance of PERC, PERT and standard industrial solar cells

Energy Procedia

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-113

  Krügener, Jan ^a   Harder, Nils Peter ^a,b  

^a Insitute of Electronic Materials and Devices (MBE)   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

Author keywords

PERC; PERT; Simulation; Weak light

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898757650     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.07.256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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