Heavily doped Si: P emitters of crystalline Si solar cells: Recombination due to phosphorus precipitation

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 680-684

  Min, Byungsul ^a   Wagner, Hannes ^b   Dastgheib Shirazi, Amir ^c   Kimmerle, Achim ^d   Kurz, Heinrich ^a   Altermatt, Pietro P ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Emitters; Phosphorus; Precipitates; Recombination; Silicon; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATES; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS;

AUGER RECOMBINATION; CRYSTALLINE SI SOLAR CELLS; DEVICE MODELLING; EMITTERS; PHOSPHORUS-DOPED; RECOMBINATION; SATURATION CURRENT DENSITIES; SHOCKLEY-READ-HALL RECOMBINATIONS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905923971     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201409138     Document Type: Article

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