A new approach to grain boundary engineering for photovoltaic polysilicon by unidirectional and rotational solidification

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 558-559, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 843-850

  Watanabe, Tadao ^a,b   Kido, Kota ^a   Tsurekawa, Sadahiro ^a   Kawahara, Kolch ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electrical activity; Grain boundaries; Grain boundary engineering; Polysilicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLIDIFICATION;

DIRECTIONAL GRAIN BOUNDARY DENSITY (DGBD); ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; GRAIN BOUNDARY CHARACTER DISTRIBUTION (GBCD); ORIENTATION IMAGING MICROSCOPY (OIM);

POLYSILICON;

EID: 38349154411     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-443-x.843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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