Advanced Defect Engineering for Ultra-High Efficiency Solar Cells

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Unravelling the defects grown during the processing of state-of-the-art silicon solar cells to ensure high quality and high efficiency.

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Competitive advantage

  • World-leaders in unravelling the physics of defects in high-efficiency devices
  • Successfully developed a wide range of processes to remove defects in solar cells and improve their efficiency
  • Processes that are tailored to the specific needs of the industry, and the wafers and ingots they use

Impact

  • Improving the efficiency of silicon solar cells by identifying defects and developing processes to reduce them.

Successful applications

  • Ring defect removals
  • Metals gettering
  • Defect hydrogenation
  • Defect dissolution

Capabilities and facilities

  • Tabula rasa, oxygen precipitates dissolution
  • Defect thermal deactivation
  • Advanced intrinsic and extrinsic gettering
  • Vacancy-defect dissociation
  • Hydrogenation processes

Our partners

  • Industry leaders in monocrystalline silicon solar cell fabrication