This paper discusses developments in the mitigation of light-induced degradation caused by
boron-oxygen defects in boron-doped Czochralski grown silicon. Particular attention is paid …

Since its invention in the 1950s, semiconductor solar cell technology has evolved in great
leaps and bounds. Solar power is now being considered as a serious leading contender for …

Among the many characterization techniques for solar panel testing, two,
electroluminescence (EL) and photoluminescence (PL), can provide useful visual …

Since 2017, the efficiency record for cast multi-crystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells has been
22.3% using a TOPCon design on a 2× 2 cm 2 area of an n-type wafer processed in the …

A laser texturing process including laser ablation and post-etching has been developed to
form a unique microstructure of pits in craters (PIC) on the front surface of the diamond wire …

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 …

Photovoltaic (PV) installations have experienced significant growth in the past 20 years.
During this period, the solar industry has witnessed technological advances, cost reductions …

We compare the electrical properties of p-type and n-type industrially grown High
Performance (HP) multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) and mono-like silicon. The materials are …

In this work, the growth behavior inside and above seed gaps during directional
solidification of monocrystalline lab-scale silicon ingots was investigated. It will be shown …

We propose a new growth method for quasi-monocrystalline Si that achieves high-quality
ingots and a high yield ratio. This method induces defect regions with compose dislocations …