Iron imaging in multicrystalline silicon wafers via photoluminescence

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 439-442

  Fan, Yang Chieh ^a   Tan, Jason ^a   Phang, Sieu Pheng ^a   Macdonald, Daniel ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CELL PROCESSING; CROSSOVER POINTS; DISSOLVED IRON; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERSTITIAL IRON; MEGA-PIXEL; MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; PAIR BREAKING; PAIR DISSOCIATION; PHOSPHORUS GETTERING; PL MEASUREMENTS;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRON COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYSILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 78650168107     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5616749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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