Publications

Thin silicon solar cells: Pathway to cost-effective and defect-tolerant cell design

A. Augusto, E.E. Looney, C. del Cañizo, S. T. Bowden, and T. Buonassisi
Energy Procedia 124, 706-711 (2017)

Optimizing phosphorus diffusion for photovoltaic applications: Peak doping, inactive phosphorus, gettering, and contact formation

H. Wagner, A. Dastgheib-Shirazi, B. Min, A.E. Morishige, M. Steyer, G. Hahn, C. del Cañizo, T. Buonassisi, and P.P. Altermatt
Journal of Applied Physics 119, 185704 (2016)

High-performance and traditional multicrystalline silicon: Comparing gettering responses and lifetime-limiting defects

S. Castellanos, K.E. Ekstrøm, A. Autruffe, M.A. Jensen, A.E. Morishige, J. Hofstetter, P.X.T. Yen, B. Lai, G. Stokkan, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 6, 632-640 (2016)

Material requirements for the adoption of unconventional silicon crystal and wafer growth techniques for high-efficiency solar cells

J. Hofstetter, C. del Cañizo, H. Wagner, S. Castellanos, and T. Buonassisi
Progress in Photovoltaics 24, 122–132 (2016)

Combined impact of heterogeneous lifetime and gettering on solar cell performance

A.E. Morishige, H. Wagner, J. Hofstetter, I. Avci, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Energy Procedia 77, 119-128 (2015)

Building intuition of iron evolution during solar cell processing through analysis of different process models

A.E. Morishige, H.S. Laine, J. Schön, A. Haarahiltunen, J. Hofstetter, C. del Cañizo, M.C. Schubert, and T. Buonassisi
Applied Physics A 120, 1357 (2015)

Precipitated iron: A limit on gettering efficacy in multicrystalline silicon

D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, G. Coletti, B. Lai, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Journal of Applied Physics 113, 044521 (2013)

Engineering metal precipitate size distributions to enhance gettering in multicrystalline silicon

J. Hofstetter, D.P. Fenning, J. Lelièvre, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Physica Status Solidi A 209, 1861-1865 (2012)

Towards the tailoring of P diffusion gettering to as-grown silicon material properties

J. Hofstetter, J.-F. Lelièvre, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, T. Buonassisi, and C. del Cañizo
Solid State Phenomena 178–179, 158–165 (2011)

Iron distribution in silicon after solar cell processing: Synchrotron analysis and predictive modeling

D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, S. Hudelson, M. Rinio, J.-F. Lelièvre, B. Lai, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Applied Physics Letters 98, 162103 (2011)

Enhanced iron gettering by short, optimized low-temperature annealing after phosphorus emitter diffusion for industrial silicon solar cell processing

J. Hofstetter, J. Lelièvre, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, T. Buonassisi, A. Luque, and C. del Cañizo
Physica Status Solidi (c) 3, 759–762 (2011)

Impurity-to-efficiency simulator: Predictive simulation of silicon solar cell performance based on iron content and distribution

J. Hofstetter, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, J.-F. Lelièvre, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Progress in Photovoltaics 19, 487–497 (2011)

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Impurity-to-efficiency simulator: Predictive simulation of solar cell efficiencies based on measured metal distribution and cell processing conditions

J. Hofstetter, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, J.-F. Lelièvre, T. Buonassisi, and C. del Cañizo
Proc. 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain (2010)

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Synchrotron-based microanalysis of iron distribution after thermal processing and predictive modeling of resulting solar cell efficiency

D.P. Fenning, J. Hofstetter, M.I. Bertoni, J. Lelièvre, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA (2010)

Simulating the evolution of the impurity content and distribution in a mc-Si wafer during solar cell processing

J. Hofstetter, C. del Cañizo, T. Buonassisi, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, J. Lelièvre, and A. Luque
Proc. 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Hamburg, Germany; pp.2019-2022 (2009)