Decade of PV industry R&D advances in silicon module manufacturing

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 1460-1463

  Symko Davies, Martha ^a   Mitchell, Richard L ^a   Witt, C Edwin ^a   Thomas, Holly P ^a   King, Richard ^b   Ruby, Douglas ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM GROWTH; SAPPHIRE; SILICON;

CELL FABRICATIONS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; EDGE-DEFINED FILM-FED GROWTH; MANUFACTURING COST; MODULE MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; TECHNICAL ADVANCES; TECHNICAL GROWTH;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84949595562     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2000.916168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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