Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of CdTe solar cells
- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 94 (5) , 3549-3555
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1597974
Abstract
We show that time-resolved photoluminescence measurements of completed polycrystalline CdTe solar cells provide a measure of recombination near the CdTe/CdS metallurgical interface that is strongly correlated to the open-circuit voltage in spite of complex carrier dynamics in the junction region. Oxygen in the growth ambient during close-spaced sublimation generally reduces this recombination rate; grain size does not have a strong effect.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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