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Title The Nature and the Kinetics of Light-Induced Defect Creation in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Films and Solar Cells
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Authors Melskens, J; Schouten, M; Mannheim, A; Vullers, AS; Mohammadian, Y; Eijt, SWH; Schut, H; Matsui, T; Zeman, M; Smets, AHM
Title The Nature and the Kinetics of Light-Induced Defect Creation in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Films and Solar Cells
Year 2014
Published Ieee Journal Of Photovoltaics, 4.0, 6
Abstract The nature and the kinetics of light-induced defect creation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) films and solar cells are investigated by means of Doppler broadening positron annihilation spectroscopy, Fourier transform photocurrent spectroscopy, and J-V characterization. There is a strong correlation between the open volume deficiencies in a-Si:H and the Staebler-Wronski effect (SWE). The carrier generation and recombination profiles in the absorber layer are spatially correlated, and the recombination due to defects in the top and bottom parts of the absorber layer is different. Furthermore, the various defect distributions in the bandgap have different defect creation kinetics. It is demonstrated that the SWE defect formation kinetics in a solar cell are very complex and can impossibly be described by one time scaling similar to t(beta) as is often claimed.
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