Investigation of aluminum-boron doping profiles formed by coalloying from screen-printed pastes

Energy Procedia

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 93-99

  Rauer, Michael ^a   Schmiga, Christian ^a   Tuschinsky, Annika ^a   Glatthaar, Markus ^a   Glunz, Stefan W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aluminum boron codoping; aluminum boron paste; coalloying; silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888387231     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.11.093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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