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Simulation of Amorphous Silicon Hydride Solar Cells Using a Personal Computer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

Finley R. Shapiro
Finley R. Shapiro*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

The simulation of a-Si:H solar cells has the potential to make a major contribution to the development of improved devices. However, to achieve this potential, simulations must run quickly on personal computers. This will require simplified approaches which are justified by the correspondence of their results to more elaborate but slower running simulations.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 219: Symposium A – Amorphous Silicon Technology - 1991 , 1991 , 457
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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