• DocumentCode
    1040626
  • Title

    Photovoltaic effects in graded bandgap structures

  • Author

    Marfaing, Y. ; Chevallier, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Meudon-Bellevue, France
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    8/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    465
  • Lastpage
    471
  • Abstract
    A theory of photovoltaic effects in nonhomogeneous semiconductors which takes into account the variations of bandgap, effective masses, mobilities, majority carrier concentrations, and pair lifetime is presented. The photovoltaic effects observed on graded-composition CdxHg1-xTe single crystals are essentially due to the gradient of gap, but are strongly reduced by the diffusion length and resistivity variations, in accordance with the theoretical predictions.
  • Keywords
    Crystals; Effective mass; Electrostatics; Energy states; Equations; Photonic band gap; Photovoltaic effects; Solar energy; Solar power generation; Thermodynamics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-ED.1971.17229
  • Filename
    1476551
    • Link To Document
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