Misfit dislocations generated during non-ideal boron and phosphorus diffusion and their effect on high-efficiency silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1047-1050

  Cousins, P J ^a   Cotter, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

BACK SURFACE FIELDS; LOCALIZED CONTACT DIFFUSION; SILICON LATTICE;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 27944467537     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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