Relationship of aluminum grain size to the grain size of polycrystalline silicon produced by the aluminum induced crystallization of amorphous silicon

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 001643-001648

  Stinzianni, Emilio ^a   Dunn, Kathleen ^a   Zhouying, Zhao ^a   Rane Fondacaro, Manisha ^a   Efstathiadis, Harry ^a   Haldar, Pradeep ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AL SAMPLE; ALUMINUM-INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN SIZE; LAYER EXCHANGE; NUCLEATION MODELS; POLY-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; POLY-SI; POLY-SI FILMS; RF-MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; TEM; VACUUM-ANNEALING;

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POLYSILICON;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 77951528526     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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