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The Schottky barrier acts to separate optically generated minority carriers from the majority carriers that are collected from a bulk layer extending a couple of diffusion lengths from the barrier. As an ideal Schottky diode, however, it is unable to produce a respectable photovoltaic light-to-electric power conversion since it maintains the same majority quasi-Fermi level throughout the device to which both electrode Fermi levels are connected.
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Böer, K.W. (1992). The Schottky Barrier Photodiode. In: Survey of Semiconductor Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2912-1_22
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