Performance limitations of mc-Si solar cells caused by defect clusters

ECS Transactions

Volumn 18, Issue 1 PART 2, 2009, Pages 1049-1058

  Sopori, Bhushan ^a   Rupnowski, P ^a   Mehta, V ^a   Budhraja, V ^a   Johnston, S ^a   Call, N ^a   Mountinho, H ^a   Al Jassim, M ^a   Shaikh, Aziz ^b   Seacrist, M ^b   Carlson, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Ferro Electronic Materials ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EFFICIENCY; CHARACTERISTICS OF DEFECT; DEFECT CLUSTER; EFFICIENCY LOSS; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; PERCENTAGE POINTS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; SI SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELL PROCESSING; SPECIFIC ORIENTATION;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; POLYSILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 77950683796     PISSN: 19385862     EISSN: 19386737     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1149/1.3096571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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