Transition-metal profiles in a multicrystalline silicon ingot

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Macdonald, Daniel ^a   Cuevas, Andrés ^a   Kinomura, A ^b   Nakano, Y ^c   Geerligs, L J ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS (NAA); SILION INGOTS; SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGE (SPV) DIFFUSION; THERMAL-NEUTRON FLUX;

CRYSTALLIZATION; IMPURITIES; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLIDIFICATION; SOLUBILITY; TRANSITION METALS;

SILICON;

EID: 13644282498     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1845584     Document Type: Article

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