Laser-processed high-efficiency silicon RISE-EWT solar cells and characterisation

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 736-743

  Harder, Nils Peter ^a   Hermann, Sonja ^a   Merkle, Agnes ^a   Neubert, Tobias ^a   Brendemühl, Till ^a   Engelhart, Peter ^b   Meyer, Rüdiger ^c   Brende, Rolf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

^b Q Cells AG   (Germany)

^c Stiebel Eltron GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BORON DIFFUSIONS; CHARACTERISATION; EMITTER AND BASE CONTACTS; EMITTER LAYERS; EMITTER-WRAP-THROUGH; FABRICATION SEQUENCE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LASER PROCESSING; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; METALLISATION; P-TYPE; PHOSPHORUS DIFFUSION; PROCESS COMPLEXITY; PROCESSING STEPS; REAR SIDE; RECOMBINATION LOSS; SURFACE FEATURE;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; EVAPORATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROELECTRONICS; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY;

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EID: 77952572607     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.200880720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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