Dislocation is a common extended defect in crystalline silicon solar cells, which affects the
recombination characteristics of solar cells by forming deep‐level defect states in the silicon …

Silicon has dominated the photovoltaic material market for a few decades. In contrast to
perfectly crystallized Czochralski (CZ) silicon, casting multi‐crystalline silicon attracts much …

Black silicon (b‐Si) has many attractive properties and is currently being adopted in various
fields of semiconductor technology. It is shown here that b‐Si during thermal activation may …

Dislocations can severely limit the conversion efficiency of multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si)
solar cells by reducing minority carrier lifetime. As cell performance becomes increasingly …

The efficiency of silicon (Si)-based solar cells is strongly affected by crystal defects and
impurities. Metallic impurities, in particular interstitial iron (Fe) atoms, cause large electric …

Dislocation clusters in multicrystalline silicon limit solar cell performance by decreasing
minority carrier diffusion length. Studies have shown that the recombination strength of …

Herein, the effects of gettering, temperature, dopant concentration, and metal contamination
on the etch pit density (EPD) of an mc‐Si material are studied. It is demonstrated that there is …

Phosphorus diffusion gettering of multicrystalline silicon solar cell materials generally fails to
produce material with minority-carrier lifetimes that approach that of gettered …

Metal impurities are known to hinder the performance of commercial Si-based solar cells by
inducing bulk recombination, increasing leakage current, and causing direct shunting …

We present a model for predicting the solar cell efficiency potential of multicrystalline silicon
bricks prior to sawing. Three model inputs are required: bulk lifetime images from the side …