The emergence of the high-performance multi-crystalline silicon (HP mc-Si) in 2011 has
made a significant impact to photovoltaic industry. In addition to the much better ingot …

High-efficiency Si solar cells have attracted great attention from researchers, scientists,
engineers of photovoltaic (PV) industry for the past few decades. Many researchers …

The low cost and high quality of multicrystalline silicon (mc‐Si) based on directional
solidification has become the main stream in photovoltaic (PV) industry. The mc‐Si quality …

Directional solidification (DS) has become the major process for growing multi-crystalline
silicon (mc-Si) for solar cells in the photovoltaic industry. The control of grains, as well as the …

Crystalline silicon solar cells play a leading role in the photovoltaic market. In order to select
the key technologies related to silicon solar cells for the next 5–10 years, a Delphi-AHP …

Silicon has remained the material of choice for both the microelectronic and photovoltaic
(PV) industries for a few decades. In addition to its abundance, silicon can be refined to an …

We directly observed the transition of crystal growth behavior of Si in a low undercooling
region. We succeeded in observing the initiation of faceted dendrite growth from a portion of …

The article describes the results of the study of the microstructure and some electrophysical
properties of silicon obtained by re-melting in a solar oven. It was found that the granularity …

The past two decades have been a transformative era for solar silicon crystal growth,
especially in the competition between multi-crystalline silicon (Multi-Si) and mono-crystalline …

We report a novel idea for grain control by using spot cooling for multi-crystalline silicon (mc-
Si) crystal growth. The method employs a graphite crucible with cooling spots to generate …