Recombination in converters of β-radiation energy to electrical energy
- Authors: Abanin I.E.1, Amelichev V.V.1, Bulyarskii S.V.1, Lakalin A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Research and Production Complex Technological Center
- Issue: Vol 61, No 12 (2016)
- Pages: 1838-1843
- Section: Solid State Electronics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-7842/article/view/198643
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784216120021
- ID: 198643
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Abstract
β-to-electric energy converters based on high-ohmic silicon, as well as processes that provide a high conversion efficiency, have been studied. It has been shown that the conversion efficiency is related to recombination in the space-charge region of converters at low levels of injection. A technique for determining the parameters of recombination centers that is built on new conversion algorithms has been developed. These algorithms make it possible to change the monotonic (and exponential as a whole) current–voltage characteristic of the device to a singular curve and find the parameters of recombination centers. These parameters have been calculated in a wide temperature range. Regions in the temperature–forward bias coordinates have been revealed in which recombination fluxes are captured by a recombination center, which influences the saturation current of the current–voltage characteristic and the conversion efficiency.
About the authors
I. E. Abanin
Research and Production Complex Technological Center
Email: bulyar2954@mail.ru
Russian Federation, proezd 4806, 5, Zelenograd, Moscow, 124498
V. V. Amelichev
Research and Production Complex Technological Center
Email: bulyar2954@mail.ru
Russian Federation, proezd 4806, 5, Zelenograd, Moscow, 124498
S. V. Bulyarskii
Research and Production Complex Technological Center
Author for correspondence.
Email: bulyar2954@mail.ru
Russian Federation, proezd 4806, 5, Zelenograd, Moscow, 124498
A. V. Lakalin
Research and Production Complex Technological Center
Email: bulyar2954@mail.ru
Russian Federation, proezd 4806, 5, Zelenograd, Moscow, 124498