Improved diffused-region recombination-current pre-factor analysis

Energy Procedia

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-148

  Thomson, Andrew ^a   Grant, Nicholas ^a   Chern, Kean Fong ^a   Kho, Teng ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Photoconductance; Recombination; Silicon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920678961     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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