Solar Cells, 2nd Edition

Chapter IA-2

Semiconductor Materials and Modelling

Tom Markvart^a and Luis Castañer^b

^aSchool of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK

^bUniversidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Chapter Outline

1. Introduction

2. Semiconductor Band Structure

3. Carrier Statistics in Semiconductors

4. The Transport Equations

5. Carrier Mobility

6. Carrier Generation by Optical Absorption

6.1. Band-to-Band Transitions

6.2. Free-Carrier Absorption

7. Recombination

7.1. Bulk Recombination Processes

7.2. Surface Recombination

7.3. Minority-Carrier Lifetime

8. Radiation Damage

9. Heavy Doping Effects

10. Properties of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

Acknowledgements

References

1 Introduction

Solar cell modelling is fundamental to a detailed ...