Avalanche multiplication and radiative recombination of carriers in silicon solar cells

The paper defines the conditions for acceleration of carriers in semiconductors to the shock-ionization energies in a strong electric field of limited length and describes the generation and recombination processes of avalanche multiplication and recombination in microplasma that arise in the reverse-biased p-n-junction solar cells. This is a physical Justification for diagnosis of microdefects in semiconductors with the help of microplasma.