Applicability of the Meyer–Neldel rule to solar cells

15 December 1984

journal article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 45 (12) , 1298-1300
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95125

Abstract

A comparison of data taken on high quality silicon, GaAs, and GaInAs solar cells with those taken on a variety of homojunction, heterojunction, and metal-insulator-semiconductor devices indicates that while the Meyer–Neldel rule may be applicable to certain types of solar cells it is not applicable to well-behaved, diffusion-controlled homojunction devices. It cannot be used, therefore, as a universal rule to predict maximum achievable solar cell voltages.

Keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE
OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE
SILICON

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Current transport in boeing (Cd, Zn)/CuInSe₂solar cells
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 1984
Meyer–Neldel rule in solar cells
Applied Physics Letters, 1984