It is well known that silicon in its various structural configurations (single crystal,
multicrystalline, amorphous, micro-nanocrystalline) supplies almost 90% of the substrates …

Engineering microstructural defects, like grain boundaries, offers superior control over
transport properties in energy materials. However, technological advancement requires …

This study aims to better understand the influence of crystallographic structure and impurity
decoration on the recombination activity at grain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon. A …

Highly detrimental dislocation clusters are frequently observed in lab-scale as well as
industrially produced multicrystalline silicon ingots for solar cell applications. This paper …

Crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells have been accepted as the only environmentally and
economically acceptable alternative source to fossil fuels. The majority of commercially …

This work addresses the issue of structural defect-metallic impurity interactions in
photovoltaic silicon and their effect on minority carrier diffusion length values. Aluminium …

The content and uniformity of carbon and silicon carbide (SiC) precipitates have an
important impact on the efficiency of solar cells made of multicrystalline silicon. We …

This paper focuses on the recent developments in Czochralski (CZ) crystal growth of silicon
for large-scale integrated circuits (LSIs) and multi-crystalline silicon growth using a …

Oxygen and carbon are the main impurities in multicrystalline silicon for photovoltaic
applications. Precipitation of oxygen and carbon occurs during crystal growth and solar cell …

In this study, we performed a numerical simulation of the growth of multicrystalline silicon
ingots using the DSS method and compared the results with the experiments. The thermal …