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Record Nr.

UNINA9910702855303321

Autore

Sopori Bhushan Lal

Titolo

Performance limitations of mc-Si solar cells caused by defect clusters [[electronic resource] ] : preprint / / B. Sopori ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Golden, CO : , : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, , [2009]

Descrizione fisica

10 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Conference paper NREL/CP ; ; 520-45012

Soggetti

Solar cells - Defects

Photovoltaic cells - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed April 2009).

"February 2009."

"To be presented at Semicon China 2009, Shanghai, China, March 17-19, 2009."

Sommario/riassunto

Multicrystalline silicon wafers used for solar cells exhibit defect clusters--localized crystal defects in and near grains of some specific orientations. Defect clusters are also dominant sites for impurity precipitation, and they remain ungettered and unpassivated through the solar cell processing. This paper describes characteristics of defect clusters, and shows, through theory and experiment, that defect clusters typically lower cell efficiency by 3 to 4 absolute percentage points. To recover this efficiency loss, it is necessary to getter precipitated impurities.