Iron point defect reduction in multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Pickett, Matthew D ^a,c   Buonassisi, Tonio ^b,d  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d Evergreen Solar Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW PURITY FEEDSTOCK; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; IRON; SILICON; SUPERSATURATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41349086199     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2898204     Document Type: Article

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