Quantitative recombination and transport properties in silicon from dynamic luminescence Johannes Giesecke

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giesecke, Johannes, author.

Series:

Springer theses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiconductors--Recombination.

Semiconductors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Harmonically modulated luminescence combines the advantages of highly sensitive luminescence metrology with an immediate dynamic access to carrier lifetime in semiconductors at a minimum of required a priori information. The present work covers theoretical, conceptual, and experimental advances of the harmonically modulated luminescence technique. Theoretical constraints of dynamic carrier lifetime techniques are rigorously elaborated, including the proof of their differential nature and their characteristics at nonuniform spatial distributions of recombination rate. The pathway toward a unified, reliable, and versatile harmonically modulated carrier lifetime metrology is delineated - covering the entire solar cell production chain from bare ingots to finished solar cells. Accurate access to miscellaneous relevant recombination and transport properties via harmonically modulated luminescence is demonstrated and experimentally validated, embracing injection-dependent carrier lifetimes at extremely low injection conditions, a spatially resolved carrier lifetime calibration of luminescence images, and accurate approaches to both net dopant concentration and minority carrier mobility

Contents:

Introduction

Solar Cell Operation

Dynamics of Charge Carriers

Luminescence of Silicon

Harmonically Modulated Lifetime

Constraints of Dynamic Carrier Lifetime Techniques

Evolution of the Experimental Setup

Conceptual Advances: Recombination Properties

Conceptual Advances: Transport Properties

Summary and Outlook

Notes:

"Doctoral thesis accepted by University of Konstanz, Germany"

Includes bibliographical references

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Print version Giesecke, Johannes. Quantitative recombination and transport properties in silicon from dynamic luminescence

ISBN:

9783319061573

3319061577

3319061569

9783319061566

OCLC:

881278116

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