Purification of metallurgical grade silicon to solar grade for use in solar cell wafers

Tetsu-To-Hagane/Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 717-724

  Kato, Yoshiei ^a   Hanazawa, Kazuhiro ^b   Baba, Hiroyuki ^b   Nakamura, Naomichi ^a   Yuge, Noriyoshi ^b   Sakaguchi, Yasuhiko ^a   Hiwasa, Shoichi ^b   Aratani, Fukuo ^b  

^a JFE STEEL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; ELECTRON BEAMS; PHOSPHORUS; PURIFICATION; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SOLIDIFICATION;

DEPHOSPHORIZATION; METALLURGICAL GRADE SILICON (MG-SI); PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; SOLAR GRADE SILICON (SOG);

PYROMETALLURGY;

EID: 0034317857     PISSN: 00211575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2355/tetsutohagane1955.86.11_717     Document Type: Article

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