Impact of carrier recombination on fill factor for large area heterojunction crystalline silicon solar cell with 25.1% efficiency

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2015, Pages

  Adachi, Daisuke ^a   Hernández, José Luis ^b   Yamamoto, Kenji ^a,b  

^a KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KANEKA Belgium NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CARRIER LIFETIME; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

A-SI/C-SI INTERFACES; CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CARRIER RECOMBINATION CENTER; CRYSTALLINE SI (C-SI); CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; LARGE AREA HETEROJUNCTIONS; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; PROCESS CONDITION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84950132435     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4937224     Document Type: Article

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