Phosphorus gettering in multicrystalline silicon studied by neutron activation analysis

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 285-288

  Macdonald, Daniel ^a   Cuevas, Andres ^a   Kinomura, Atsushi ^b   Nakano, Yukihiro ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; INGOTS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOLAR CELLS;

METALLIC IMPURITIES; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON; PHOSPHORUS GETTERING;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 0036948376     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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