Characterization of electroless nickel as a seed layer for silicon solar cell metallization

Bulletin of Materials Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 197-201

  Raval, Mehul C ^a   Solanki, Chetan S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Contact resistivity; Electroless nickel; Ni Cu metallization; Nickel phosphides; Nickel silicide

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ANNEALING; METALLIZING; MORPHOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PALLADIUM; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SILICIDES; SILICON; SILICON OXIDES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

CONTACT RESISTIVITIES; CU METALLIZATION; ELECTROLESS NICKEL; NICKEL PHOSPHIDE; NICKEL SILICIDE;

NICKEL;

EID: 84923568382     PISSN: 02504707     EISSN: 09737669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12034-014-0828-1     Document Type: Article

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