The physics of solar cells

By J. Nelson. 2003

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Crystalline silicon cell performance at low light intensities (2009, background): “Here, n2 equals 2 as in to most text books [39,40].”
Flexible Electronics: The Next Ubiquitous Platform (2012, background): “This light-induced degradation is perhaps the most major disadvantage of a-Si [216].”
Schottky-quantum dot photovoltaics for efficient infrared power conversion (2008, methodology): “Attaining an ohmic contact is difficult for many bulk n-type semiconductors, so tunnelling-based Schottky barriers are often utilized [7].”
Solution-processable polymeric solar cells: A review on materials, strategies and cell architectures to overcome 10% (2015, methodology): “4 eV (885 nm) [1] was calculated providing all incident light with energy larger than the bandgap is absorbed.”
Multi‐dimensional modeling of solar cells with electromagnetic and carrier transport calculations (2013, methodology): “for this is that no window layer was employed to prohibit the diffusion of minority carriers to the surface, resulting in a large photocurrent loss due to strong surface recombination [1].”
Recent Progresses on Defect Passivation toward Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells (2019, background): “After diffusion, transport and extraction processes, electrons and holes are collected by the negative and positive electrodes respectively.[23] The above process is based on the ideal state.”