Charge carrier separation in solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 461-469

  Wurfel, Uli ^a,b   Cuevas, Andres ^c   Wurfel, Peter ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charge carriers; photovoltaic cells; radiative recombination; semiconductor device doping; semiconductor device modeling; semiconductor metal interfaces

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOLAR CELLS; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC);

CARRIER SEPARATION; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION; SELECTIVE TRANSPORT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL INTERFACES; TWO TERMINALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 84919951573     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2363550     Document Type: Article

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