Defect engineering during the contact co-firing step in an industrial belt furnace

Physica Status Solidi (C) Current Topics in Solid State Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 10-11, 2012, Pages 2107-2110

  Peral, Ana ^a   Lelièvre, Jean François ^b   Recart, Federico ^c   del Cañizo, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍA SOLAR   (Spain)

^b Centro de Tecnología del Silicio Solar   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Tecnologia Microelectronica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Co firing step; Defect engineering; Extended gettering; Iron; Multicrystalline silicon

Indexed keywords

BELT-FURNACES; CO-FIRING; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; DEFECT ENGINEERING; GETTERING; GETTERING EFFECT; INTERSTITIAL IRON; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON INGOTS; PHOSPHORUS GETTERING; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

IRON; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; POLYSILICON; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84867955041     PISSN: 18626351     EISSN: 16101642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssc.201200166     Document Type: Article

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