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Relationship between thermal treatment conditions and minority carrier lifetimes in p-type, FZ Si wafers

Yoshioka et al., 2001

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366236367024343777
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Yoshioka K
Ishikawa S
Mimura M
Saitoh T
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Solar energy materials and solar cells

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Minority-carrier lifetimes in FZ-p Si wafers were evaluated at various thermal treatments to investigate the effect of the recombination centers. Bulk lifetimes became longer in the case of annealing in O2 ambient at around 1000° C, while it decreased drastically in N2 and Ar …
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