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 …

Cast‐mono silicon (CM‐Si) is a promising substrate to fabricate cost‐effective photovoltaic
(PV) wafers used for solar cells with higher efficiency compared with conventional cast …

The literature on melt growth of single crystalline fibers is reviewed. The paper introduces in
the characteristic features and wide field of advanced applications of micro single crystals in …

An approach to grain control using seed-assisted growth in directional solidification (DS) is
reported in this paper. Proper multi-crystalline silicon seeds at the bottom of the crucible …

The quality improvement of the mc-Si ingot is achieved by numerical simulation using the
finite volume method. We have done the numerical simulation on a 2D symmetric Directional …

A new functional grain boundary group (FGBG) technology was employed to generate quasi-
single crystalline silicon ingots with a high single crystalline area ratio. Fabrication of the …

The casting mono-like silicon (Si) grown by directional solidification (DS) is promising for
high-efficiency solar cells. However, high dislocation clusters around the top region are still …

This work presents the numerical investigation of manufacturing the multi-crystalline silicon
(mc-Si) ingots by using a lab-scale directional solidification furnace. Thermal distribution …

To control the solidification front shape and thermal stress in the growing silicon ingot and
reduce the small-grain region at its periphery, a moving insulation partition block was …

The thermal field in the seeded directional solidification (DS) of quasi-single crystalline
(QSC) silicon needs precise control to preserve the seed and maintain a flat solidification …