Advanced Hydrogenation of Dislocation Clusters and Boron-oxygen Defects in Silicon Solar Cells

Energy Procedia

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 799-809

  Hallam, Brett J ^a   Hamer, Phill G ^a   Wang, Sisi ^a   Song, Lihui ^a   Nampalli, Nitin ^a   Abbott, Malcolm D ^a   Chan, Catherine E ^a   Lu, Doris ^a   Wenham, Alison M ^a   Mai, Ly ^a   Borojevic, Nino ^a   Li, Alex ^a   Chen, Daniel ^a   Kim, Moon Yong ^a   Azmi, Azmeer ^a   Wenham, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

boron oxygen; defect; hydrogen passivation; hydrogenation; light induced degradation; regeneration; silicon solar cell

Indexed keywords

BORON; DEFECTS; EFFICIENCY; HYDROGENATION; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING; MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXYGEN; PASSIVATION; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BORON-OXYGEN; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; HYDROGEN PASSIVATION; ILLUMINATION INTENSITY; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION; REGENERATION; SCREEN-PRINTED SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84947019505     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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