Surface passivation of boron diffused emitters for high efficiency solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Benick, Jan ^a   Hoex, Bram ^b   Schultz, O ^c   Glunz, Stefan W ^a  

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

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-SI SOLAR CELL; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; NEGATIVE CHARGE; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; PASSIVATION LAYER; POSITIVE CHARGES; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

EFFICIENCY; PASSIVATION; SILICON NITRIDE;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84879729699     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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