Appearance of rift stuctures created by acidic texturization and their impact on solar cell efficiency

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 447-452

  Nievendick, J ^a   Demant, M ^a   Haunschild, J ^a   Krieg, A ^a   Souren, F M M ^a   Rein, S ^a   Zimmer, M ^a   Rentsch, J ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILL FACTOR; INCIDENT LIGHT; MATERIAL QUALITY; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; PARALLEL RESISTANCE; RIFT STRUCTURE; ROUGH SURFACES; SILICON SURFACES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; SURFACE AREA; TEXTURIZATION; TOTAL SURFACE AREA;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACES;

EID: 78650140511     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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