{"title":"Silicon ribbons for solar cells grown from powder by the SSP method","authors":"A. Eyer, A. Rauber, N. Schillinger, J. Grabmaier","doi":"10.1109/PVSC.1988.105973","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The design of a machine for semicontinuous production of 100-mm wide silicon ribbons is presented. As the grain selection takes place at the beginning of zone melting, continuous processing instead of single-sheet processing is reasonable and leads to fairly wide grains (on the order of 10-20 mm) extending over the whole length of the ribbon. Grain structure and defects are revealed by etching techniques. Due to the high intragrain defect density there is a significant effect of hydrogen passivation which is demonstrated by EBIC and LBIC measurements. The best solar cells made from silicon sheets from powder (SSP) material showed efficiencies above 13%.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":10562,"journal":{"name":"Conference Record of the Twentieth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference","volume":"125 1","pages":"1565-1568 vol.2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Record of the Twentieth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.1988.105973","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The design of a machine for semicontinuous production of 100-mm wide silicon ribbons is presented. As the grain selection takes place at the beginning of zone melting, continuous processing instead of single-sheet processing is reasonable and leads to fairly wide grains (on the order of 10-20 mm) extending over the whole length of the ribbon. Grain structure and defects are revealed by etching techniques. Due to the high intragrain defect density there is a significant effect of hydrogen passivation which is demonstrated by EBIC and LBIC measurements. The best solar cells made from silicon sheets from powder (SSP) material showed efficiencies above 13%.<>