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57Fe charge states in MC-Si solar cells under light illumination after GeV-implantation of 57Mn

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Immediately after the GeV-implantation of 57Mn nuclei produced by the RIKEN-RIBF facility, 57Mn/57Fe Mössbauer spectra in Si-solar cells are measured under light illumination. Comparing with the spectrum of p-type multi-crystalline-Si, the broad spectra of the solar cell under operation can be analyzed as a superposition of interstitial and substitutional Fe components with different charge states. The charge states of Fe impurities are created by the excess carrier injection followed by a directional carrier flow in the p-n junction. The present results provide us a possibility to clarify the carrier trapping process at the Fe impurities in Si-solar cells.

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  1. Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Toyosawa 2200-2, Fukuroi-city, Shizuoka 437-8555, Japan

    Yutaka Yoshida, Yuki Akiyama, Kenichi Yukihira & Kazuo Hayakawa

  2. RIKEN Nishina Center, Wakō, Japan

    Yoshio Kobayashi, Takashi Nagatomo, Hideki Ueno & Akihiro Yoshimi

  3. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Kunifumi Suzuki, Daisuke Nagae & Koichiro Asahi

  4. Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, Physics Department, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium

    Guido Langouche

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Yoshida, Y., Suzuki, K., Kobayashi, Y. et al. 57Fe charge states in MC-Si solar cells under light illumination after GeV-implantation of 57Mn. Hyperfine Interact 204, 133–137 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-011-0424-3

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