Arrangement of dendrite crystals grown along the bottom of Si ingots using the dendritic casting method by controlling thermal conductivity under crucibles

Journal of Crystal Growth

Volumn 319, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-18

  Nakajima, Kazuo ^a   Kutsukake, Kentaro ^b   Fujiwara, Kozo ^b   Morishita, Kohei ^a   Ono, Satoshi ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DAI ICHI KIDEN Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

A1. Dendrite crystals; A1. Supercooling; A1. Thermal conductivity; A2. Cast growth; A3. Solar cells; B2. Si multicrystals

Indexed keywords

A1. SUPERCOOLING; A1. THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; A2. CAST GROWTH; A3. SOLAR CELLS; DENDRITE CRYSTALS; MULTICRYSTALS;

CRUCIBLES; CRYSTALS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRAPHITE; INGOTS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; SUPERCOOLING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY);

EID: 79952620053     PISSN: 00220248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2011.01.069     Document Type: Article

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