Towards a unified low-field model for carrier mobilities in crystalline silicon

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 92-99

  Schindler, Florian ^a,b   Forster, Maxime ^c   Broisch, Juliane ^a   Schön, Jonas ^a   Giesecke, Johannes ^a   Rein, Stefan ^a   Warta, Wilhelm ^a   Schubert, Martin C ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Apollon Solar ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Compensation; Mobility; Phonon scattering; Silicon

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; PHONON SCATTERING; SILICON;

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; LOW FIELD;

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL);

EID: 84908448029     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.05.047     Document Type: Article

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