Study of internal versus external gettering of iron during slow cooling processes for silicon solar cell fabrication

Solid State Phenomena

Volumn 156-158, Issue , 2009, Pages 387-393

  Hofstetter, Jasmin ^a   Lelièvre, Jean F ^a   Del Cañizo, Carlos ^a   Luque, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multi crystalline silicon; Phosphorous diffusion gettering; Slow cooling

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEFECTS; DIFFUSION; PHOSPHORUS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SILICON WAFERS; IRON;

ELECTRON LIFETIME; GETTERING; HIGH TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; INTERNAL GETTERING; INTERSTITIAL IRON; METAL IMPURITIES; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; P-TYPE; PHOSPHOROUS DIFFUSION GETTERING; RELAXATION GETTERING; SEGREGATION GETTERING; SI WAFER; SLOW COOLING; SOLAR CELL FABRICATION;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 75849126210     PISSN: 10120394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.156-158.387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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