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Impurity and defect mitigation for silicon photovoltaics

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This thesis details a number of techniques designed to improve the efficiency of solar cells by reducing the impact of efficiency-limiting defects. The defects targeted by this work include transition metal impurities located within the as-cast silicon wafer, and dangling silicon bonds located at the wafer surfaces. This thesis has been divided into three techniques that have been studied.

Firstly, saw damage gettering which is designed to remove impurities from low qualit...

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MPLS
Department:
Materials
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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford
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Deposit date:
2017-11-01

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