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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 95, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3247969
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The effective electron minority-carrier diffusion length, L(n,eff), for 2.0 mu m diameter Si wires that were synthesized by Cu-catalyzed vapor-liquid-solid growth was measured by scanning photocurrent microscopy. In dark, ambient conditions, L(n,eff) was limited by surface recombination to a value of <= 0.7 mu m. However, a value of L(n,eff)=10.5 +/- 1 mu m was measured under broad-area illumination in low-level injection. The relatively long minority-carrier diffusion length observed under illumination is consistent with an increased surface passivation resulting from filling of the surface states of the Si wires by photogenerated carriers. These relatively large L(n,eff) values have important implications for the design of high-efficiency, radial-junction photovoltaic cells from arrays of Si wires synthesized by metal-catalyzed growth processes. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3247969]
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