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ECN publication
Title:
Influence of grain orientation on contact resistance at higher emitter resistances, investigated for alkaline and acid saw damage removal
 
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Published by: Publication date:
ECN Solar Energy 1-5-2003
 
ECN report number: Document type:
ECN-RX--03-017 Conference Paper
 
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Presented at: 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Osaka, Japan, 11-18 mei 2003.

Abstract:
The relation between grain orientation and contactresistance was investigated for alkaline and acid saw damage removal using the Corescan and optical microscopy. For alkaline etched cells, it was found that grains oriented near <100> are badly contacted, while other orientations are well contacted. A sheet resistance scan on the emitter of a neighbour wafer suggests a relation between <100> orientation and increased sheet resistance, but whether this explains the bad contact is far from clear yet. For acid etched cells, the contact resistance was found to be low for all orientations. This means that acid etching does not only reduce reflectance losses, but contact resistance losses as well. Figure 1: Corescan instrument


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