Silicon solar cell production

Thermal-capillary analysis of the horizontal ribbon growth of silicon crystals

“…Kudo [12] demonstrated growth rates of 41.5 cm/min for single-crystal and 85 cm/min for multicrystalline silicon with several modifications in furnace design over Bleil's configuration, and Jewett et al [13] demonstrated growth rates of up to 60 cm/min. In very recent work, Ydstie and co-workers [14] inspired by the Pilkington float-glass process, proposed a horizontal silicon growth process similar to that of Shockley and produced a prototype HRG system to grow ice.…”

Mechanism of B removal by solvent refining of silicon in Al–Si melt with Ti addition

“…The material resource for crystalline Si solar cells is solar grade Si (SoG-Si). Currently, the production process of SoGSi [1], via the traditional Siemens process or its modified alternatives, is fairly energy intensive and environment-unfriendly [2,3]. In order to reduce its energy consumption and environment pollution, metallurgical refining processes of SoG-Si using metallurgical grade Si (MG-Si) as a starting material have been developed.…”

Ternary organic solar cells doped methoxyphenyl indenopyrazoloquinoline derivatives

“…With the ever-growing importance of protecting the natural environment, renewable energy sources, including photovoltaic cells, have become increasingly popular [1,2]. So far, three generations of photovoltaic cells have been developed: silicon [3], so-called semiconductor thin-layer cells [4,5] and the third generation, consisting of dyes [6,7], organic cells [8,9], polymers and perovskites [10,11] cells.…”