Iron contamination in silicon solar cell production environments

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3479-3484

  Abbott, Malcolm D ^a   Poplavskyy, Dmitry ^b   Scardera, Giuseppe ^b   Inns, Daniel ^b   Lemmi, Francesco ^b   McIntosh, Keith R ^b   Baker Finch, Simeon C ^a  

^a PV Lighthouse   (Australia)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

contamination; defects; manufacturing; photovoltaic cells; recombination; silicon

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DEFECTS; IMPURITIES; IRON; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS;

FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; IRON CONTAMINATION; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; RECOMBINATION; SCREEN-PRINTED SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84912103014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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