Fabrication and characterization of 18.6% Efficient multicrystalline silicon solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1776-1783

  Narasimha, Shreesh ^a   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back surface field; gettering; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOSPHORUS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BACK SURFACE FIELD; CONTACTLESS PHOTOCONDUCTANCE DECAY; IMPURITY GETTERING; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0032142163     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.704378     Document Type: Article

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