2015
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201510071
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A kinetic Monte Carlo study of defect assisted transport in silicon heterojunction solar cells

Abstract: The device performance of an amorphous silicon (a‐Si)/crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cell depends strongly on the interfacial transport properties of the device. The energy of the photogenerated carriers at the barrier strongly depends on the strength of the inversion at the heterointerface and their collection requires interaction with the defects present in the intrinsic amorphous silicon buffer layer. In this work we present a theoretical model to study the defect assisted transport of photogenerated carr… Show more

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“…using the KMC method to study transport across the a-Si:H (i) layer. [24][25][26] F I G U R E 3 Energy distribution function calculated by the EMC at (a) the a-Si:H(i)/c-Si heterointerface and (b) in the low-field quasineutral c-Si bulk, $100 nm away from the a-Si:H (i)/c-Si heterointerface…”
Section: Kinetic Monte Carlomentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…using the KMC method to study transport across the a-Si:H (i) layer. [24][25][26] F I G U R E 3 Energy distribution function calculated by the EMC at (a) the a-Si:H(i)/c-Si heterointerface and (b) in the low-field quasineutral c-Si bulk, $100 nm away from the a-Si:H (i)/c-Si heterointerface…”
Section: Kinetic Monte Carlomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We have previously reported our KMC algorithm in detail in Muralidharan et al 24 We consider multi‐phonon processes for injection into the a‐Si:H(i) barrier, defect to defect (hopping) transitions for transport inside the a‐Si:H(i) barrier layer, and a multi‐phonon defect emission and Poole‐Frenkel emission for extraction from the a‐Si:H(i) barrier (shown in Figure 6). 24 We have previously reported preliminary results using the KMC method to study transport across the a‐Si:H(i) layer 24–26 …”
Section: Theoretical Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%