In this talk we develop a coherent physics based understanding of the shunt leakage problem in a-Si:H cells, and discuss its implications on cell and module level.

Sourabh Dongaonkar is with School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Karthik Y and Souvik Mahapatra are with Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

SRC ERI, Network for Photovoltaic Technology

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Dongaonkar S., Karthik Y, Mahapatra S., Alam M. A., "A Physical Model for Non-Ohmic Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells.", 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Seattle, WA, 2011

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Sourabh Dongaonkar, Souvik Mahapatra, Karthik Yogendra, Muhammad Alam (2011), "A Physical Model for Non-Ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells," https://nanohub.org/resources/11841.

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1. nanoelectronics
2. photovoltaics (PV)
3. reliability
4. solar cell devices
5. solar cells