A critical review on the fracture of ultra-thin photovoltaics silicon wafers

D Cheng, Y Gao - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2024 - Elsevier
Silicon-based solar photovoltaics cells are an important way to utilize solar energy. Diamond
wire slicing technology is the main method for producing solar photovoltaics cell substrates …

Multimode photoacoustic characterization of subsurface damage in ground thin wafers

Z Liu, B Lin, X Liang, X Ma, Y Wan - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
A multimode photoacoustic method has been applied for evaluating the degree of
subsurface damage (SSD) in the ground silicon wafer. Mode conversion of laser-generated …

Nonlinear surface acoustic wave characterization of single crystal copper: A molecular dynamics study

Y Wan, B Lin, Z Liu, X Ma, H Jia, W Chen… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
The elastic nonlinearity of materials causes high-amplitude surface acoustic waves (SAWs)
to experience nonlinear sharpening during propagation, potentially causing material …

Peridynamic modeling of nonlinear surface acoustic waves propagating in orthotropic materials

Z Liu, B Lin, X Liang, X Ma, Y Wan - Ultrasonics, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the elastic nonlinearity of the material, high-amplitude surface acoustic waves
undergo nonlinear evolution during propagation and may lead to material failure. To enable …

A Computational Study of Solid Si Target Dynamics under ns Pulsed Laser Irradiation from Elastic to Melting Regime

H Papadaki, E Kaselouris, M Bakarezos, M Tatarakis… - Computation, 2023 - mdpi.com
The dynamic behavior of solid Si targets irradiated by nanosecond laser pulses is
computationally studied with transient, thermοmechanical three-dimensional finite element …

The Fractal Analysis of Surface Crack on Silicon Wafers Sliced by Diamond Wire

T Liu, P Zhang, Y Su, Y Sun - Available at SSRN 4983388 - papers.ssrn.com
The conventional geometric theory fails to accurately describe the distribution pattern of
surface cracks, while quantitative evaluation of such cracks on silicon wafers is rarely …