The Frozen Potential Approach to Separate the Photocurrent and Diode Injection Current in Solar Cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 865-873

  Chavali, Raghu Vamsi Krishna ^a   Moore, James E ^a   Wang, Xufeng ^a   Alam, Muhammad Ashraful ^a   Lundstrom, Mark S ^a   Gray, Jeffery Lynn ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Current voltage (I V) characteristics; modeling; numerical simulation; superposition principle; thin film solar cells

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DIODES; MECHANICS; MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHOTOCURRENTS; THIN FILMS;

CURRENT TRANSPORT; INJECTION CURRENTS; LIGHT CONDITIONS; MODEL APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85027944917     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2405757     Document Type: Article

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