Gettering improvements of minority-carrier lifetimes in solar grade silicon

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 123-130

  Osinniy, V ^a,c   Nylandsted Larsen, A ^a   Hvidsten Dahl, E ^a,b   Enebakk, E ^b   Soiland A K ^b   Tronstad, R ^b   Safir, Y ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Elkem Carbon AS   (Norway)

^c RAcell Solar A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Internal gettering; Minority carrier lifetime; Phosphorus gettering; Release diffusion model; Segregation model; Solar grade silicon

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL GETTERING; MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIMES; PHOSPHORUS GETTERING; SEGREGATION MODEL; SOLAR GRADE SILICONS;

PHOSPHORUS;

CARRIER LIFETIME;

EID: 84858317181     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.02.027     Document Type: Article

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