Comprehensive simulation study of industrially relevant silicon solar cell architectures for an optimal material parameter choice

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1319-1331

  Steinkemper, Heiko ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Glunz, Stefan W ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

device simulation; numerical modeling; silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COPYRIGHTS; EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

CELL ARCHITECTURES; CELL PERFORMANCE; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OPTIMAL MATERIALS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; SIMULATION STUDIES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84990233300     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2790     Document Type: Article

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