Production viability of gallium doped mono-crystalline solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 935-938

  Crabtree, Geoffrey ^a   Jester, Theresa L ^a   Fredric, Christian ^a   Nickerson, Jeff ^a   Meemongkolkiat, Vichai ^b   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^b  

^a Shell Solar Industries LP   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FEEDSTOCKS; GALLIUM; SILICON;

GALLIUM-DOPED CRYSTAL; NOVEL CELL CONCEPTS; SILICON FEEDSTOCK;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 27944488012     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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