Defect clusters in multicrystalline silicon: Their nature and influence on the solar cell performance

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 001969-001974

  Sopori, B ^a   Budhraja, V ^a   Rupnowski, P ^a   Johnston, S ^a   Call, N ^a   Moutinho, H ^a   Al Jassim, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PERFORMANCE; CELL PROCESSING; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; DEFECT CLUSTER; ELECTRONIC INFLUENCE; GRAIN ORIENTATION; HIGH DISLOCATION DENSITY; LARGE REGIONS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON (MC-SI); PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SI WAFER; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

DEFECTS; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; POLYSILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS;

DEFECT DENSITY;

EID: 77951537748     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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