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Theory of Recombination in Non-Crystalline Junctions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Marco Nardone ,
Victor G. Karpov  and
Diana Shvydka
Marco Nardone
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Toledo, Physics & Astronomy, Toledo, Ohio, United States
Victor G. Karpov
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Toledo, Physics & Astronomy, Toledo, Ohio, United States
Diana Shvydka
Affiliation:
[email protected], University of Toledo, Radiation Oncology, Toledo, Ohio, United States
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Abstract

A theory of non-crystalline recombination junctions is developed and compared to the experimental data. Junction transport is represented as hopping in both real and energy spaces, dominated by rare yet exponentially effective optimum channels having favorable configurations of localized states. Our work correlates the current-voltage characteristics of non-crystalline devices with material parameters and predicts large non-ideality factors increasing under light, and possible variations between nominally identical devices.

Keywords

photovoltaicthin filmamorphous
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1165: Symposium M – Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics–2009 , 2009 , 1165-M03-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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