Category Archives: Workshop Proceedings

Co-optimizing the Phosphorous Diffusion Time-Temperature Profile for Gettering and Throughput

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Rapid dislocation-density mapping of as-cut crystalline-silicon wafers

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Impurity analysis in silicon- and carbon-bearing raw feedstock materials.

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Electrical and Mechanical Defects in Solar Cell Materials and Devices

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Reducing the concentration of interstitial iron in crystalline silicon solar cells via low (≤ 500°C) temperature annealing.

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Synchrotron-based infrared spectromicroscopy of oxygen gettering by grain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon.

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Metal particle evolution during solar cell processing in multicrystalline silicon.

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Efficiency-limiting ‘defect bands’ in string ribbon silicon: correlations between structural, impurity, and electrical properties.

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Synchrotron-based spectrally-resolved X-ray beam induced current: a technique to quantify the effect of metal-rich precipitates on minority carrier diffusion length in multicrystalline silicon.

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Assessing the role of impurities in silicon nitride crucible lining material as a potential source of metal contamination in photovoltaic-grade ingot-cast multicrystalline silicon.

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EXAFS studies on Ni11.6Fe2.8Cu0.4Si27.6 precipitates in multicrystalline silicon.

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Transition metals in silicon solar cells: sources of contamination, interactions, defect engineering.

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Improvement of solar grade silicon through defect control

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The impact of chemical state and thermal stability of metal precipitates on gettering efficiency in silicon

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The impact of metal impurity clusters on solar cell performance in multicrystalline silicon

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Differences and similarities between metal clusters in mc-Si materials from different manufacturers

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Aluminum gettering and dissolution of Cu3Si precipitates in silicon

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Stress-induced nitrogen and oxygen segregation and complexing investigated by high resolution synchrotron FTIR

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Dependence of precipitation behavior of Cu and Ni in CZ and multicrystalline silicon on cooling conditions

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Distribution and chemical state of Cu-rich clusters in silicon

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Transition metals in multicrystalline solar cells: Understanding the nature, origins and impacts of metal contamination in multicrystalline Si and minimizing its impact on solar cell performance

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Neutron activation analysis study of metal content of multicrystalline silicon for cost-efficient solar cells

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Experimental procedure for determination of the depth of metal clusters in XBIC/µ-XRF mapping of metal clusters in silicon solar cells

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Statistically meaningful data on the chemical state of iron precipitates in processed multicrystalline silicon using synchrotron-based x-ray absorption spectroscopy

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Impact of metal impurities on solar cell performance

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Application of synchrotron radiation based x-ray microprobe techniques for the analysis of recombination activity of metals precipitated at Si/SiGe misfit dislocations

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Application of x-ray fluorescence technique to studies of aluminum gettering in silicon

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Analysis of shunts in multicrystalline silicon solar cells using microprobe x-ray fluorescence technique

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Application of x-ray fluorescence microprobe technique for the analysis of fully processed solar cells

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