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Crystal Growth of Silicon Ribbons

For Terrestrial Solar Cells by the EFG Method

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Part of the book series: Crystals ((CRYSTALS,volume 5))

Abstract

The growth of shaped silicon crystals has been attractive for a number of years and several methods to obtain various shapes, in particular flat ribbons, have been developed. Recently, however, the problem has been much more sharply focused due to the desire for the preparation of very low cost solar cells for terrestrial power generation, and a number of articles in the present volume address this problem.

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Wald, F.V. (1981). Crystal Growth of Silicon Ribbons. In: Grabmaier, J. (eds) Silicon. Crystals, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68175-2_4

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