Implementation of Fermi-Dirac statistics and advanced models in PC1D for precise simulations of silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-36

  Haug, Halvard ^a   Kimmerle, Achim ^b   Greulich, Johannes ^b   Wolf, Andreas ^b   Stensrud Marstein, Erik ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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

Author keywords

Device simulation; Fermi Dirac statistics; Silicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

SOLAR CELLS;

DEVICE SIMULATIONS; FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS; PRECISE SIMULATION;

SILICON;

EID: 84908461763     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.06.021     Document Type: Article

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