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A step toward economical materials for low-cost solar energy
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Vishu Dosaj receded his B.S. degree in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science in 1967. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of New Brunswick in 1971 and 7974. Later in 1974 he joined Dow Corning Corporation and for the past three years has been working on the development of low-cost solar-grade silicon as a Project Specialist.
Lee Hunt received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Michigan Technological University in 1960 and 1962. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from lowa State University in 1967 and thereafter joined Dow Corning Corporation. He has done work relating to the thermodynamics, kinetics, and economics of processes for producing polycrystalline semiconductor silicon. More recently he has evaluated and developed processes leading to low-cost silicon for the solar cell industry. He is a Senior Research Specialist.
Anders Schei graduated from the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Norway in 1956. From 1956 to 1959 he served as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Silicate Science at the same university. In 1959 he joined the Research Department of Elektrokemisk AIS (now Elkem-Spigerverket A/S) where he now serves as Senior Metallurgical Engineer. His main field of interest is submerged are furnaces, especially for silicon alloys. He has published a few papers in this field.
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Dosaj, V.D., Hunt, L.P. & Schei, A. High-purity silicon for solar cell applications. JOM 30, 8–13 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03354369
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