Impurity diffusion from uncoated foreign substrates during high temperature CVD for thin-film Si solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-309

  Beaucarne, G ^a   Bourdais, S ^b   Slaoui, A ^b   Poortmans, J ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GRAPHITE; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICATES; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILM DEVICES;

DIFFUSION BARRIERS; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0033895098     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0248(99)00118-X     Document Type: Article

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