Enhanced performance in the deteriorated area of multicrystalline silicon wafers by internal gettering
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© 2013 Wiley-Blackwell. This is the post print version of the following article: Boulfrad, Yacine & Haarahiltunen, Antti & Savin, Hele & Øvrelid, Eivind J. & Arnberg, Lars. 2013. Enhanced performance in the deteriorated area of multicrystalline silicon wafers by internal gettering. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications. Volume 23, Issue 1. DOI: 10.1002/pip.2391, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pip.2391/full
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2013
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en
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10
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Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, Volume 23, Issue 1
Abstract
The deteriorated area of the multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) ingots grown by directional solidification, commonly known as the Red Zone, is usually removed before wafering. This area, characterized by poor minority carrier lifetime, is located on the sides, at the top, and the bottom of the mc-Si ingots. In this study, the effect of internal gettering by oxygen precipitates and structural defects has been investigated on the bottom zone of a mc-Si ingot. Nucleation and growth of oxygen precipitates as well as low temperature annealing were studied. Photoluminescence imaging, lifetime mapping, and interstitial iron measurements performed by μ-PCD reveal a considerable reduction of the bottom Red Zone. An improvement of lifetime from below 1 µs to about 20 µs and a reduction of interstitial iron concentration from 1.32 × 1013 at/cm3 to 8.4 × 1010 at/cm3 are demonstrated in this paper.Description
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multicrystalline silicon, internal gettering, iron, Red Zone
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Boulfrad, Yacine & Haarahiltunen, Antti & Savin, Hele & Øvrelid, Eivind J. & Arnberg, Lars. 2013. Enhanced performance in the deteriorated area of multicrystalline silicon wafers by internal gettering. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications. Volume 23, Issue 1. DOI: 10.1002/pip.2391.
