The concept of skins for silicon solar cell modeling

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 173, Issue , 2017, Pages 128-133

  Fell, Andreas ^a   Schön, Jonas ^a   Schubert, Martin C ^a   Glunz, Stefan W ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conductive boundary; Device modeling; Device simulation; Multiscale modeling; Quokka; Silicon solar cells; Skin

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SKIN; SOLAR CELLS;

CONDUCTIVE BOUNDARY; DEVICE MODELING; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; QUOKKA;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85019854651     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2017.05.012     Document Type: Article

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