Characterization of laser-doped localized p-n junctions for high efficiency silicon solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1943-1949

  Fell, Andreas ^a   Surve, Sachin ^a   Franklin, Evan ^a   Weber, Klaus J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conductive boundary; modeling; quasi neutrality; Quokka; simulation; solar cell.

Indexed keywords

CONTACT RESISTANCE; EFFICIENCY; MODELS; POINT CONTACTS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SOLAR CELLS;

CONDUCTIVE BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; DARK CURRENT-VOLTAGE; DIODE CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON SOLAR CELLS; QUASI- NEUTRALITY; QUOKKA; SIMULATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84901343603     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2014.2318714     Document Type: Article

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