Minority-Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination Velocity in Single-Crystal CdTe

Kuciauskas, D.; Kanevce, A.; Dippo, P.; Seyedmohammadi, S.; Malik, R.

doi:10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2359738

Title: Minority-Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination Velocity in Single-Crystal CdTe

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Authors:: Kuciauskas, D.; Kanevce, A.; Dippo, P.; Seyedmohammadi, S.; Malik, R.

Publication Date:: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1176748

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 1, January 2015

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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                    Kuciauskas, D., Kanevce, A., Dippo, P., Seyedmohammadi, S., and Malik, R. Minority-Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination Velocity in Single-Crystal CdTe.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Kuciauskas, D., Kanevce, A., Dippo, P., Seyedmohammadi, S., & Malik, R. Minority-Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination Velocity in Single-Crystal CdTe.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2359738

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                    Kuciauskas, D., Kanevce, A., Dippo, P., Seyedmohammadi, S., and Malik, R. 2015.  
        "Minority-Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination Velocity in Single-Crystal CdTe".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2359738.

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  title        = {Minority-Carrier Lifetime and Surface Recombination Velocity in Single-Crystal CdTe},

  author       = {Kuciauskas, D. and Kanevce, A. and Dippo, P. and Seyedmohammadi, S. and Malik, R.},

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  journal      = {IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics},
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  volume       = 5,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},

  month        = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}

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