Open AccessHarmful Shunting Mechanisms Found in Silicon Solar Cells (Fact Sheet)
Publication year - 2011
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1016431
Subject(s) - silicon solar cell , doping , materials science , silicon , inkwell , shunting , production (economics) , raising (metalworking) , solar cell , optoelectronics , work (physics) , surface (topology) , engineering physics , environmental science , mechanical engineering , engineering , composite material , geometry , mathematics , medicine , metallurgy , economics , macroeconomics
Scientists developed near-field optical microscopy for imaging electrical breakdown in solar cells and identified critical electrical breakdown mechanisms operating in industrial silicon and epitaxial silicon solar cells