Analysis of Radiation Damage to Si Solar Cells under High-Fluence Electron Irradiation
Analysis of Radiation Damage to Si Solar Cells under High-Fluence Electron Irradiation
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高通量电子辐照下硅太阳能电池辐射损伤分析
DOI:
10.1143/jjap.35.3918
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发表时间:
1996
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
T. Hisamatsu
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Yamaguchi;Stephen Taylor;Ming;S. Matsuda;O. Kawasaki;T. Hisamatsu
Radiation testing of Si n+–p–p+ space solar cells has revealed an anomalous increase in short-circuit current I sc, followed by an abrupt decrease and cell failure, induced by high-fluence (>1016 cm-2) electron irradiation. A model which can be used to explain these phenomena by expressing the change in majority-carrier concentration p of the base region as a function of the electron fluence has been proposed in addition to the well-known model in which I sc is decreased due to minority-carrier lifetime reduction with irradiation. The reduction in p due to majority-carrier trapping by radiation-induced defects has two effects; one is broadening of the depletion layer which contributes to the increase in the generated photocurrent and that in the recombination-generation current in the depletion layer, and the second is an increase in the resistivity of the base layer resulting in an abrupt decrease of I sc and failure of the solar cells.