Improved string ribbon silicon solar cell performance by rapid thermal firing of screen-printed contacts

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1405-1410

  Yelundur, Vijay ^a,b   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a,c   Jeong, Ji Weon ^a,c   Hanoka, Jack I ^d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Evergreen Solar   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogen passivation; Multicrystalline silicon (mc Si); Rapid thermal processing (RTP); Ribbon silicon; Silicon nitride

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN PASSIVATION; LIGHT BEAM INDUCED CURRENT MAPPING; RAPID THERMAL FIRING; SCREEN PRINTED CONTACTS; STRING RIBBON SILICON SOLAR CELL;

ANNEALING; CARRIER MOBILITY; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); HYDROGENATION; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; PASSIVATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON WAFERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0036683925     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2002.801248     Document Type: Article

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