Wafer thickness optimization for silicon solar cells of heterogeneous material quality

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 955-958

  Michl, Bernhard ^a   Kasemann, Martin ^b   Warta, Wilhelm ^a   Schubert, Martin C ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multicrystalline; Silicon; Solar cell; Wafer thickness

Indexed keywords

BULK RECOMBINATION; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; MULTICRYSTALLINE; OPTIMAL THICKNESS; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; THICKNESS OPTIMIZATION; WAFER THICKNESS;

OPTIMIZATION; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84887994403     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201308090     Document Type: Article

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