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Minority carrier lifetime of silicon solar cells from quasi-steady-state photoluminescence

Giesecke et al., 2011

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14894843369140548943
Author
Giesecke J
Michl B
Schindler F
Schubert M
Warta W
Publication year
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Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

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Minority carrier lifetime is the most crucial material parameter for the performance of a silicon solar cell. While numerous methods exist to determine carrier lifetime on solar cell precursors prior to metallization, only very few techniques are capable of implicitly extracting …
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