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Solar Cells Lecture 2: Physics of Crystalline Solar Cells

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 Lundstrom, Mark

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Solar Cells Lecture 2: Physics of Crystalline Solar Cells
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Solar cell performance is determined by generation (of electron-hole pairs by the incident illumination) and recombination of electron-hole pairs. Efficiency is increased by increasing generation and decreasing recombination. This tutorial focussing on recombination losses in crystalline silicon solar cells under short-circuit and open-circuit conditions, but the general concepts apply more broadly than just to crystalline silicon.