Investigation of the effect of resistivity and thickness on the performance of cast multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1308-1311

  Sheoran, Manav ^a,b   Upadhyaya, Ajay ^a   Rounsaville, Brian ^a   Dong, Seop Kim ^a   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a   Narayanan, S ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

DOPANT-DEFECT INTERACTION; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; OPTIMUM RESISTIVITY;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 41749095334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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