Growth of silicon thin layers on cast MG-Si from metal solutions for solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 41-42, Issue , 1996, Pages 19-30

  Wang, T H ^a   Ciszek, T F ^a   Schwerdtfeger, C R ^a   Moutinho, H ^a   Matson, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COPPER; DIFFUSION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDES; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

GROWTH RATE; ISOTROPIC GROWTH; METAL SOLUTIONS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 4243576001     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-0248(95)00131-X     Document Type: Article

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