Passivation of inline wet chemically polished surfaces for industrial PERC devices

Energy Procedia

Volumn 27, Issue , 2012, Pages 573-579

  Schwab, C ^a   Wolf, A ^a   Graf, M ^a   Nekarda, J ^a   Kastner G ^a   Zimmer, M ^a   Kuhnhold S ^a   Hofmann, M ^a   Biro, D ^a   Preu, R ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Passivation; PERC; Single side polishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871806696     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.07.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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