Toward Understanding Chalcopyrite Solar Cells via Advanced Characterization Techniques

S Bae, JH Kim, HS Lee, BK Min - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In response to global environmental concerns, the importance of renewable energy,
especially photovoltaic technology, is widely emphasized. As such, various efforts are made …

Light‐induced degradation in indium‐doped silicon

C Möller, K Lauer - … status solidi (RRL)–Rapid Research Letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐induced degradation of charge carrier lifetime was observed in indium‐doped silicon.
After defect formation, an annealing step at 200° C for 10 min deactivates the defect and the …

Direct comparison of time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy and Hall Van der Pauw methods for measurement of carrier conductivity and mobility in bulk …

BG Alberding, W Robert Thurber… - Journal of the Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Charge carrier conductivity and mobility for various semiconductor wafers and crystals were
measured by ultrafast above bandgap, optically excited time-resolved terahertz …

Interplay Between Strain and Thickness on the Effective Carrier Lifetime of Buffer-Mediated Epitaxial Germanium Probed by the Photoconductance Decay Technique

S Bhattacharya, SW Johnston, S Datta… - ACS Applied …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report contactless effective minority carrier lifetime of epitaxially grown unstrained and in-
plane< 110> biaxially tensile-strained (001) germanium (ε-Ge) epilayers measured using …

Probing the long-lived photo-generated charge carriers in transition metal dichalcogenides by time-resolved microwave photoconductivity

AP Herman, SJ Zelewski, K Misztal, R Kudrawiec - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Understanding the dissociation of excitons into long-lived free charge carriers is a crucial
issue when considering the applications of transition metal dichalcogenides (excitonic …

Compressed sensing current map** spatial characterization of photovoltaic devices

G Koutsourakis, M Cashmore, SRG Hall… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new photovoltaic (PV) device current map** method has been developed, combining
the recently introduced compressed sensing (CS) sampling theory with light beam induced …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of Photoinduced Charge Carriers in Metal-Halide Perovskites

A Bojtor, D Krisztián, F Korsós, S Kollarics, G Paráda… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
The measurement and description of the charge-carrier lifetime (τ c) is crucial for the wide-
ranging applications of lead-halide perovskites. We present time-resolved microwave …

Influence of fabrication processes and annealing treatment on the minority carrier lifetime of silicon nanowire films

S Kato, T Yamazaki, Y Kurokawa, S Miyajima… - Nanoscale research …, 2017 - Springer
Surface passivation and bulk carrier lifetime of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are essential for
their application in solar cell devices. The effective minority carrier lifetime of a …

Activation energies of the InSi‐Sii defect transitions obtained by carrier lifetime measurements

K Lauer, C Möller, C Teßmann, D Schulze… - … status solidi c, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Light‐induced degradation (LID) is investigated in indium doped silicon by time and
temperature dependent carrier lifetime measurements. Different transitions rates and …

Passivation quality of a stoichiometric SiNx single passivation layer on crystalline silicon prepared by catalytic chemical vapor deposition and successive annealing

TC Thi, K Koyama, K Ohdaira… - Japanese Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
A silicon nitride (SiN x) single passivation layer, prepared by catalytic chemical vapor
deposition (Cat-CVD) and successive annealing, shows high passivation quality on …