Deep junction laser doping for contacting buried layers in silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 124-134

  Hallam, Brett ^a   Chan, Catherine ^a   Sugianto, Adeline ^a,b   Wenham, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Buried layers; Floating junction; Interdigitated contacts; Laser doping

Indexed keywords

BURIED LAYER; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED CURRENT; FLOATING JUNCTION; JUNCTION PROFILES; LASER DOPING; PROCESSING SPEED; TRANSISTOR STRUCTURE;

SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 84875207458     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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