Influence of grain boundary recombinatio
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C.A. Dimitriadis
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Article
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1985
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The effective minority carrier lifetime in polycrystalline semiconductors is determined in terms of the grain size and the recombination velocity at the grain boundaries. The effect of the grain boundaries is to reduce the effective lifetime when the grain size is smaller than few diffusion lengths.