Effect of dissociation of iron-boron Pairs in crystalline silicon on solar cell properties

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 325-331

  Schmidt, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defects; Recombination; Silicon; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BORON; CONTAMINATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IRON COMPOUNDS; LIGHTING; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SILICON;

BANDGAPS; INTERSTITIAL IRON; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON; RECOMBINATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 20444413455     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.594     Document Type: Article

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