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Crystal Growth of Silicon for Solar Cells

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Editors:
  1. Kazuo Nakajima

    1. Inst. Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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  2. Noritaka Usami

    1. Inst. Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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  • Covers the technology and basic materials science for Si bulk thin-film crystal growth
  • A valuable reference work for engineers producing solar cell material and for materials scientists
  • Offers many insights into advanced Si growth technologies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Materials Research (ADVSMATERIALS, volume 14)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Feedstock

    • Eivind J. Øvreli, Kai Tang, Thorvald Engh, Merete Tangstad
    Pages 1-23

  3. Czochralski Silicon Crystal Growth for Photovoltaic Applications

    • Chung-Wen Lan, Chao-Kuan Hsieh, Wen-Chin Hsu
    Pages 25-39

  4. Floating Zone Crystal Growth

    • Helge Riemann, Anke Luedge
    Pages 41-53

  5. Crystallization of Silicon by a Directional Solidification Method

    • Koichi Kakimoto
    Pages 55-69

  6. Mechanism of Dendrite Crystal Growth

    • Kozo Fujiwara, Kazuo Nakajima
    Pages 71-82

  7. Fundamental Understanding of Subgrain Boundaries

    • Kentaro Kutsukake, Noritaka Usami, Kozo Fujiwara, Kazuo Nakajima
    Pages 83-95

  8. New Crystalline Si Ribbon Materials for Photovoltaics

    • Giso Hahn, Axel Schönecker, Astrid Gutjahr
    Pages 97-119

  9. Crystal Growth of Spherical Si

    • Kosuke Nagashio, Kazuhiko Kuribayashi
    Pages 121-134

  10. Liquid Phase Epitaxy

    • Alain Fave
    Pages 135-157

  11. Vapor Phase Epitaxy

    • Mustapha Lemiti
    Pages 159-175

  12. Thin-Film Poly-Si Formed by Flash Lamp Annealing

    • Keisuke Ohdaira
    Pages 177-191

  13. Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Films Formed by the Aluminum-Induced Layer Exchange (ALILE) Process

    • Stefan Gall
    Pages 193-218

  14. Thermochemical and Kinetic Databases for the Solar Cell Silicon Materials

    • Kai Tang, Eivind J. Øvrelid, Gabriella Tranell, Merete Tangstad
    Pages 219-251

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-269
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This book, a continuation of the series “Advances in Materials Research,” is intended to provide the general basis of the science and technology of crystal growth of silicon for solar cells. In the face of the destruction of the global environment,the degradationofworld-widenaturalresourcesandtheexha- tion of energy sources in the twenty-?rst century, we all have a sincere desire for a better/safer world in the future. In these days, we strongly believe that it is important for us to rapidly developanewenvironment-friendlycleanenergyconversionsystemusingsolar energyastheultimatenaturalenergysource. Forinstance,mostofournatural resources and energy sources will be exhausted within the next 100 years. Speci?cally, the consumption of oil, natural gas, and uranium is a serious problem. Solar energy is the only ultimate natural energy source. Although 30% of total solar energy is re?ected at the earth’s surface, 70% of total solar energy can be available for us to utilize. The available solar energy amounts to severalthousand times larger than the world’s energy consumption in 2000 of about 9,000 Mtoe (M ton oil equivalent). To manage 10% of the world’s energy consumption at 2050 by solar energy, we must manufacture 40 GW solar cells per year continuously for 40 years. The required silicon feedstock is about 400,000 ton per year. We believe that this is an attainable target, since it can be realized by increasing the world production of silicon feedstock by 12times asmuchasthe presentproductionat2005.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Kazuo Nakajima, Noritaka Usami

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