High performance multicrystalline wafers with lifetime of 400μs at industrial scale

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xiong, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Ye, Hongliang ^a   Fu, Shaoyong ^a   Altermatt, Pietro P ^a   Feng, Zhiqiang ^a   Verlinden, Pierre J ^a  

^a Trina PV Park   (China)

Author keywords

lifetime; multicrystalline; nucleation; silicon

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; INGOTS; METAL CASTINGS; NUCLEATION; SILICON;

EFFECTIVE CARRIER LIFETIMES; EFFECTIVE LIFETIME; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; LIFETIME; MULTICRYSTALLINE; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; RECOMBINATION ACTIVITY; SMALL GRAINS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84961613429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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