Dissolution and gettering of iron during contact co-firing

Energy Procedia

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages 257-262

  Lelievre J F ^a   Hofstetter, J ^b   Peral, A ^b   Hoces, I ^c   Recart, F ^c   Del Canizo C ^b  

^a Centro de Tecnología del Silicio Solar   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Tecnologia Microelectronica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Co firing step; Defect engineering; Extended gettering; Iron; Multicrystalline silicon; Rapid thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; POLYSILICON; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS;

ANNEALING PROCESS; CO-FIRING STEPS; DEFECT ENGINEERING; EXTENDED GETTERING; INTERSTITIAL IRON; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TIME-TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

IRON;

EID: 80052095462     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.06.133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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