Overview of light degradation research on crystalline silicon solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 537-547

  Saitoh, Tadashi ^a   Hashigami, Hiroshi ^a   Rein, Stefan ^b   Glunz, Stefan ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

CELL PRODUCTION CAPACITY; LIGHT DEGRADATION;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0034263088     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1099-159X(200009/10)8:5<537::AID-PIP349>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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