Photoinduced space charge effects in a-Si:H solar cells
The authors have investigated charge collection in thin amorphous silicon solar cells under light bias illumination, both experimentally and by numerical simulation. In such charge collection experiments, space charge due to trapped bias-light generated carriers leads to an enhancement of a small signal probe beam charge collection. it is found that this enhancement of the small signal charge collection is strongly dependent on the diode thickness and the defect density in the samples. In particular for thin diodes (d < 0.5 microns) the charge collection enhancement can be shown to increase with light-induced degradation of the devices. The effect of these material parameters as well as other experimental parameters, such as light bias and probe beam photon flux, is demonstrated by means of numerical simulation.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. Oldenburg (DE)
- OSTI ID:
- 20107981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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