Real-space microscopic electrical imaging of n +-p junction beneath front-side Ag contact of multicrystalline Si solar cells

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, C S ^a   Li, Z G ^b   Moutinho, H R ^a   Liang, L ^b   Ionkin, A ^b   Al Jassim, M M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG CONTACTS; ATOMIC FORCE; BROKEN DOWN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DEFECTS; DOPING CONCENTRATION; ELECTRICAL IMAGING; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; EUTECTIC POINTS; JUNCTION DEPTH; MULTICRYSTALLINE SI; RE CRYSTALLIZATIONS; REAL-SPACE; SCANNING CAPACITANCE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING KELVIN PROBE FORCE MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLITES; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METALLIZING; POLYSILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SILVER;

EID: 84860503118     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4703923     Document Type: Article

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