Observation of metal precipitates at prebreakdown sites in multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Kwapil, Wolfram ^a   Gundel, Paul ^a   Schubert, Martin C ^a   Heinz, Friedemann D ^a   Warta, Wilhelm ^a   Weber, Eicke R ^a   Goetzberger, Adolf ^a   Martinez Criado, Gema ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEFECTS; BREAKDOWN VOLTAGE; METAL PRECIPITATES; MICRO X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; PRE-BREAKDOWN BEHAVIOR; PREBREAKDOWN; TRANSITION-METAL CLUSTERS;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; POLYSILICON; PRECIPITATES; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSITION METALS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 71949108127     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3272682     Document Type: Article

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