Image force effects on carrier collection in a-Si:H solar cells

Min Koo Han; Wayne A. Anderson; R. Lahri; John Coleman

doi:10.1063/1.92708

Image force effects on carrier collection in a-Si:H solar cells

Min Koo Han
, Wayne A. Anderson
, R. Lahri
, John Coleman

Department of Electrical Engineering

SUNY Buffalo
Plasma Physics Corp

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Abstract

A modified carrier collection model of a-Si:H Schottky-barrier solar cells is proposed to explain the falloff of short wavelength carrier collection efficiency. Schottky-barrier lowering due to image force effects alters the potential distribution near the metal-semiconductor interface. This altered potential decreases the carrier collection in a-Si:H solar cells by as much as 30%. Design considerations to improve carrier collection efficiency are also proposed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	325-327
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	39
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.92708
State	Published - 1981

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