Impact of metal contamination in silicon solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 879-890

  Coletti, Gianluca ^a   Bronsveld, Paula C P ^a   Hahn, Giso ^b   Warta, Wilhelm ^c   Macdonald, Daniel ^d   Ceccaroli, Bruno ^e   Wambach, Karsten ^f   Le Quang, Nam ^g   Fernandez, Juan M ^h  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Marche AS   (Norway)

^f Sunicon AG   (Germany)

^g PhotoWatt International S A   (France)

^h BP Solar España ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

contaminations; feedstock; impurities; silicon; solar cells

Indexed keywords

BULK RECOMBINATION; CELL PERFORMANCE; CELL PROCESS; DIFFUSION LENGTH; DIRECTIONALLY SOLIDIFIED; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IN-CELL; METAL CONTAMINATION; MODEL FIT; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; P-TYPE; SEGREGATION PHENOMENA; SILICON FEEDSTOCKS; SINGLE PARAMETER;

CHROMIUM; DEGRADATION; FEEDSTOCKS; INGOTS; POLYSILICON; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 79952166537     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201000849     Document Type: Article

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