5th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics (SiliconPV 2015)

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1 5th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics (SiliconPV 2015) Energy Procedia Volume 77 Konstanz, Germany March 2015 Editors: Giso Hahn ISBN:

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3 TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CRYSTALLINE SILICON PHOTOVOLTAICS (SILICONPV 2015)... 1 Giso Hahn ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF ACTIVATION ENERGIES AND DECAY-TIME CONSTANTS OF POTENTIAL- INDUCED DEGRADED CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS... 2 Mario Bähr, Kevin Lauer ASSESSING THE DEVICE-PERFORMANCE IMPACTS OF STRUCTURAL DEFECTS WITH TCAD MODELING... 8 David Berney Needleman, Hannes Wagner, Pietro P. Altermatt, Tonio Buonassisi TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENTS OF COMPENSATED SILICON SOLAR CELLS INFLUENCE OF INGOT POSITION AND BLEND-IN-RATIO Charly Berthod, Rune Strandberg, Jan Ove Odden FFE IBC CELLS: IMPACT OF BUSBARS ON CELL PERFORMANCE WITH CIRCUIT MODELLING Antonius R. Burgers, Nicolas Guillevin, Agnes A. Mewe, Aishwarya Suvvi, Pierpaolo Spinelli, Arthur W. Weeber, Ilkay Cesar SOFT BREAKDOWN BEHAVIOR OF INTERDIGITATED-BACK-CONTACT SILICON SOLAR CELLS Haifeng Chu, Lejo J. Koduvelikulathu, Valentin D. Mihailetchi, Giuseppe Galbiati, Andreas Halm, Radovan Kopecek OUT-OF-PLANE EXCESS CARRIER DENSITY VARIATIONS IN POINT CONTACT LATTICE- BASED TEST STRUCTURES FOR QSSPC CONTACT RECOMBINATION CURRENT MEASUREMENTS Jan Deckers, Maarten Debucquoy, Robert Mertens, Jef Poortmans SHORT-CIRCUIT CURRENT DENSITY IMAGING METHODS FOR SILICON SOLAR CELLS Fabian Fertig, Milan Padilla, Otwin Breitenstein, Hannes Höffler, Ino Geisemeyer, Martin C. Schubert, Stefan Rein CURRENT-VOLTAGE CURVE ANALYSIS FOR NON-LINEAR SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND OPERATION CONDITIONS BEYOND LOW INJECTION Bernhard Fischer QUANTIFICATION OF ELECTROLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS ON MODULES Felix Fruehauf, Marko Turek OPTICAL SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF ISO-TEXTURED SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES INCLUDING LIGHT TRAPPING Johannes Greulich, Anne-Kristin Volk, Nico Wöhrle, Ingrid Haedrich, Martin Wiese, Martin Hermle, Stefan Rein COMPARISON OF BO REGENERATION DYNAMICS IN PERC AND AL-BSF SOLAR CELLS Axel Herguth, Renate Horbelt, Svenja Wilking, R. Job, Giso Hahn GRAIN-TO-GRAIN CONTRASTS IN PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IMAGES OF SILICON WAFERS Hannes Höffler, Jonas Haunschild, Stefan Rein 2D MAPPING OF CHEMICAL AND FIELD EFFECT PASSIVATION OF AL 2 O 3 ON SILICON SUBSTRATES Paul M. Jordan, Daniel K. Simon, Franz P. G. Fengler, Thomas Mikolajick, Ingo Dirnstorfer TUNNELING CONTACT PASSIVATION SIMULATIONS USING SILVACO ATLAS Frode Kløw, Erik S. Marstein, Sean Erik Foss PRECIPITATE-RELATED INJECTION-DEPENDENT CARRIER LIFETIME IN N- AND P-TYPE SILICON Wolfram Kwapil, Jonas Schön, Wilhelm Warta, Martin C. Schubert RAPID TESTING OF EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY USING LED SOLAR SIMULATORS Tabea Luka, Stefan Eiternick, Marko Turek COMBINED IMPACT OF HETEROGENEOUS LIFETIME AND GETTERING ON SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE Ashley E. Morishige, Hannes Wagner, Jasmin Hofstetter, Ibrahim Avci, Carlos Del Cañizo, Tonio Buonassisi

4 SIMULATION STUDY OF MULTI-WIRE FRONT CONTACT GRIDS FOR SILICON SOLAR CELLS Massimo Nicolai, Mauro Zanuccoli, Paolo Magnone, Marco Galiazzo, Diego Tonini, Matteo Bertazzo, Enrico Sangiorgi, Claudio Fiegna INJECTION-DEPENDENT MINORITY CARRIER LIFETIME IN EPITAXIAL SILICON LAYERS BY TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE Stéphanie Parola, Mehdi Daanoune, Anne Kaminski-Cachopo, Guillaume Chareyre, Mustapha Lemiti, Danièle Blanc-Pélissier UNDERSTANDING THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE EMITTER COVERAGE IN BC-BJ SOLAR CELLS Paul Procel, Marco Guevara, Vincenzo Maccaronio, Noemi Guerra, Felice Crupi, Giuseppe Cocorullo IMPACT OF DEFECT-POOL MODEL PARAMETERS ON THE LIFETIME IN C-SI/A-SI:H HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS David Reaux, José Alvarez, Marie-Estelle Gueunier-Farret, Jean-Paul Kleider IRON DETECTION IN CRYSTALLINE SILICON BY DIFFERENT LIFETIME MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES Matthias Rost, Daniel Stichtenoth, Karsten Meyer EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT OF CRYSTALLINE SILICON Carsten Schinke, P. Christian Peest, Karsten Bothe, Jan Schmidt, Rolf Brendel, Malte R. Vogt, Ingo Kröger, Stefan Winter, Alfred Schirmacher, Siew Lim, Hieu T. Nguyen, Daniel Macdonald MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTIES OF A COMPACT ARRAY SPECTROMETER Felix Schubert, Karsten Klameth, Sylvain Darou, Daniel Spinner FRONT-FLOATING EMITTER VOLTAGE MAPPING OF IBC MERCURY CELLS Pierpaolo Spinelli, Nicolas Guillevin, Teun Burgers, Agnes Mewe, Ard Vlooswijk, Bart Geerligs, Arthur Weeber, Ilkay Cesar THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF CARRIER-SELECTIVE CONTACTS FEATURING TUNNEL OXIDES BY MEANS OF NUMERICAL DEVICE SIMULATION Heiko Steinkemper, Frank Feldmann, Martin Bivour, Martin Hermle CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND MODULE MATERIALS USING TERAHERTZ RADIATION Vincas Tamošiunas, Linas Minkevicius, Andrius Vaitkunas, Andrzej Urbanowicz, Andrius Maneikis, Arunas Šetkus, Gintaras Valušis PROGRESS IN THE INDUSTRIAL EVALUATION OF THE MC-SI PERCT TECHNOLOGY BASED ON BORON DIFFUSION Andreas Teppe, Chun Gong, Kewei Zhao, Jin Liu, Sentao Wang, Jianming Dong, Shuisheng Zhou, Steffen Keller, Markus Klenk, Ihor Melnyk, Peter Fath NUMERICAL MODELING OF C-SI PV MODULES BY COUPLING THE SEMICONDUCTOR WITH THE THERMAL CONDUCTION, CONVECTION AND RADIATION EQUATIONS Malte R. Vogt, Hendrik Holst, Matthias Winter, Rolf Brendel, Pietro P. Altermatt DEVICE ARCHITECTURE AND LIFETIME REQUIREMENTS FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Hannes Wagner, Jasmin Hofstetter, Bernhard Mitchell, Pietro P. Altermatt, Tonio Buonassisi OVERCOMING SYSTEMATIC PHOTOCURRENT CALCULATION ERRORS IN RAY TRACING SIMULATIONS Nico Wöhrle, Johannes Greulich 3D-FIB INVESTIGATION OF CU PRECIPITATES IN C-SI AFTER HIGH TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS Annika Zuschlag, David Kohberger, Giso Hahn ADVANCED LIGHT MANAGEMENT TIO 2 NANOPARTICLE/SIO 2 COMPOSITE BACK REFLECTOR FOR SOLAR CELLS Hiroshi Nagayoshi, Takuya Murooka OPTIMIZATION OF THE ANTIREFLECTION COATING OF THIN EPITAXIAL CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Josefine K. Selj, David Young, Sachit Grover CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH ENHANCED LIGHT TRAPPING VIA REAR SIDE DIFFRACTION GRATING Nico Tucher, Johannes Eisenlohr, Hubert Hauser, Jan Benick, Martin Graf, Claas Müller, Martin Hermle, Jan Ch. Goldschmidt, Benedikt Bläsi

5 HIGH EFFICIENCY DEVICES HIGH AND LOW WORK FUNCTION MATERIALS FOR PASSIVATED CONTACTS Frank Feldmann, Kurt-Ulrich Ritzau, Martin Bivour, Anamaria Moldovan, Siddharth Modi, Jan Temmler, Martin Hermle, Stefan W. Glunz ALL-SCREEN-PRINTED DOPANT PASTE INTERDIGITATED BACK CONTACT SOLAR CELL Giuseppe Scardera, Daniel Inns, Gonghou Wang, Shannon Dugan, Jeffrey Dee, Thomas Dang, Karim Bendimerad, Francesco Lemmi, Homer Antoniadis JUNCTION FORMATION 21%-EFFICIENT N-TYPE REAR-JUNCTION PERT SOLAR CELL WITH INDUSTRIAL THIN 156MM CZ SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFER Jinyoun Cho, Hae-Na-Ra Shin, Jieun Lee, Yoonseok Choi, Jongchul Lee, Hoon Oh, Taejun Kim, Myungick Hwang, Eun-Chel Cho DISSOLUTION OF ELECTRICALLY INACTIVE PHOSPHORUS BY LOW TEMPERATURE ANNEALING Amir Dastgheib-Shirazi, Ana Peral, Michael Steyer, Johannes Rinder, Hannes Wagner, Giso Hahn SHALLOW B-IMPLANTED EMITTERS WITH LASER OVERDOPING FROM ALO X PASSIVATING LAYERS Thibaut Desrues, Coralie Lorfeuvre, Samuel Gall, Yannick Veschetti TCO-FREE LOW-TEMPERATURE P+ EMITTERS FOR BACK-JUNCTION C-SI SOLAR CELLS Isidro Martín, Arnau Coll, Gema López, Pablo R. Ortega, Thibaut Desrues, Albert Orpella, Ramón Alcubilla NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON OXIDE EMITTERS FOR SILICON HETERO JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS Luana Mazzarella, Simon Kirner, Onno Gabriel, Lars Korte, Bernd Stannowski, Bernd Rech, Rutger Schlatmann EFFECT OF ELECTRICALLY INACTIVE PHOSPHORUS VERSUS ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE PHOSPHORUS ONIRON GETTERING Ana Peral, Amir Dastgheib-Shirazi, Hannes Wagner, Giso Hahn, Carlos Del Cañizo NEW METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF ELECTRICALLY INACTIVE PHOSPHORUS IN N-TYPE EMITTERS Michael Steyer, Amir Dastgheib-Shirazi, Giso Hahn, Barbara Terheiden ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF AL P + SURFACES FORMED BY LASER DOPING FROM ALUMINIUM OXIDE PRECURSORS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PERC CELL DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE Daniel Walter, Andreas Fell, Marco Ernst, Evan Franklin, Klaus Weber ORGANIC-SILICON SOLAR CELLS EXCEEDING 20% EFFICIENCY Dimitri Zielke, Claudia Niehaves, Wilfried Lövenich, Andreas Elschner, Matthias Hörteis, Jan Schmidt MODULE ARCHITECTURES, MATERIALS, AND RELIABILITY HIGH QUALITY HALF-CELL PROCESSING USING THERMAL LASER SEPARATION Stefan Eiternick, Felix Kaule, Hans-Ulrich Zühlke, Thomas Kießling, Michael Grimm, Stephan Schoenfelder, Marko Turek REDUCTION OF THERMOMECHANICAL STRESS USING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVES Torsten Geipel, Li Carlos Rendler, Manuel Stompe, Ulrich Eitner, Lutz Rissing POTENTIAL-INDUCED DEGRADATION FOR ENCAPSULATED N-TYPE IBC SOLAR CELLS WITH FRONT FLOATING EMITTER Andreas Halm, Andreas Schneider, Valentin D. Mihailetchi, Lejo J. Koduvelikulathu, Lacramiora M. Popescu, Giuseppe Galbiati, Haifeng Chu, Radovan Kopecek OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE OF BIFACIAL MODULES BY MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING Gaby J. M. Janssen, Bas B. Van Aken, Anna J. Carr, Agnes A. Mewe LONG-TERM AND ANNEALING STABLE, SOLDERABLE PVD METALLIZATION WITH OPTIMIZED AL DIFFUSION BARRIER Julia Kumm, Rony V. Chacko, Hassan Samadi, Philip Hartmann, Dirk Eberlein, Andreas Wolf BIFACIAL NICE MODULES FROM HIGH EFFICIENCY N-TYPE BISON SOLAR CELLS Frédéric Madon, Roland Einhaus, Julien Degoulange, Corrado Comparotto, Guiseppe Galbiati, Eckard Wefringhaus

6 PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS IN QATAR: RESULTS OF FIRST YEAR OF OUTDOOR EXPOSURE Diego Martinez-Plaza, Amir Abdallah, Benjamin W. Figgis, Talha Mirza SODIUM DECORATION OF PID-S CRYSTAL DEFECTS AFTER CORONA INDUCED DEGRADATION OF BARE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Volker Naumann, Dominik Lausch, Christian Hagendorf MINIMIZATION OF ELECTRICAL LOSSES OF PV MODULES LOCATED IN PLACES WITH HIGH SOLAR IRRADIANCE Jorge Rabanal-Arabach, Andreas Schneider, Enrique Cabrera CONTROLLED INTRODUCTION OF CRACKS INTO CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND SUBSEQUENT ACOUSTIC EXCITATION Jörg Schmauder, Kevin Kurz, Andreas Schneider IMPACT OF CELL TEXTURING QUALITY ON CELL TO MODULE LOSSES Andreas Schneider, Rudolf Harney, Simon Koch ANALYSIS OF OHMIC LOSSES DUE TO SOLDER AND PRESSURE INTERCONNECTION AND RELATED INTERFACE RESISTANCES FOR SOLAR CELLS Tobias Urban, Matthias Heimann, Alexander Schmid, Ansgar Mette, Johannes Heitmann BIFACIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS ENERGY YIELD MODELLING Stanley Wang, Oscar Wilkie, Jenny Lam, Rob Steeman, Wilson Zhang, Kah Sing Khoo, Sim Chun Siong, Hannes Rostan SIO Y N X /SIN X STACK ANTI-REFLECTION COATING WITH PID-RESISTANCE FOR CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Chunlan Zhou, Junjie Zhu, Sean E. Foss, Halvard Haug, Ørnulf Nordseth, Erik S. Marstein, Wenjing Wang NOVEL CELL STRUCTURES, E.G. APPLYING TANDEMS, NEW MATERIAL COMBINATIONS OR NANOSTRUCTURES REALIZATION OF CONDUCTIVE WELLS FOR REAR SIDE ELECTRICAL CONTACT OF INTEGRATED SOLAR CELL Youssouf Boye, Guocai Sun, François Chancerel, Alioune Sow, Jean-Baptiste Brette, Antoine Malinge, Agnès Petit, Eric Millon, Alain Straboni N- AND P-TYPESILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH MOLYBDENUM OXIDE HOLE CONTACTS James Bullock, Di Yan, Andres Cuevas, Yimao Wan, Christian Samundsett SILICON BULK ISSUES DURING PROCESSING OF HOMO-HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS Tristan Carrere, Renaud Varache, Jérôme Le Perchec, Christine Denis, Delfina Muñoz, Jean-Paul Kleider VIA HOLE CONDITIONING IN SILICON HETEROJUNCTION METAL WRAP THROUGH SOLAR CELLS Ingo Dirnstorfer, Niels Schilling, Stefan Koerner, Paul Gierth, Andreas Waltinger, Barbara Leszczynska, Daniel K. Simon, Jan Gärtner, Paul M. Jordan, Thomas Mikolajick, Ines Dani, Markus Eberstein, Lars Rebenklau, Jens Krause PROGRESS TOWARDS A 30% EFFICIENT GAINP/SI TANDEM SOLAR CELL Stephanie Essig, Scott Ward, Myles A. Steiner, Daniel J. Friedman, John F. Geisz, Paul Stradins, David L. Young BORON DOPED SIO X DIELECTRICS FOR BIFACIAL N-TYPE AND P-TYPE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Prabal Goyal, Elias Urrejola, Junegie Hong, Alain Madec OPTIMIZING PLASMONICALLY ENHANCED UPCONVERSION Søren P. Madsen, Sabrina R. Johannsen, Bjarke R. Jeppesen, Jens V. Nygaard, Pia B. Jensen, Jacques Chevallier, Brian Julsgaard, Peter Balling, Arne Nylandsted Larsen PROPERTIES OF LIQUID PHASE CRYSTALLIZED INTERDIGITATED BACK-CONTACT SOLAR CELLS ON GLASS Paul Sonntag, Jan Haschke, Sven Kühnapfel, Onno Gabriel, Daniel Amkreutz, Bernd Rech EVOLUTION OF BULK C-SI PROPERTIES DURING THE PROCESSING OF GAP/C-SI HETEROJUNCTION CELL Renaud Varache, Maxime Darnon, Médéric Descazeaux, Mickael Martin, Thierry Baron, Delfina Muñoz DESIGN OF 4-TERMINAL SOLAR MODULES COMBINING THIN-FILM WIDE-BANDGAP TOP CELLS AND C-SI BOTTOM CELLS Dong Zhang, Wim Soppe, Ruud E. I. Schropp

7 PROCESS INTEGRATION SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS: TOWARDS LOW-COST HIGH-EFFICIENCY INDUSTRIAL DEVICES AND APPLICATION TO LOW-CONCENTRATION PV Antoine Descoeudres, Christophe Allebé, Nicolas Badel, Loris Barraud, Jonathan champliaud, Fabien Debrot, Antonin Faes, Agata Lachowicz, Jacques Levrat, Sylvain Nicolay, Laurent Sansonnens, Matthieu Despeisse, Christophe Ballif MODEL BASED CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL P-TYPE PERC TECHNOLOGY BEYOND 21% EFFICIENCY Gerd Fischer, Matthias Müller, Stefan Steckemetz, René Köhler, Friedrich Lottspeich, Franziska Wolny, Christian Koch, Thomas Roth, Marco Kipping, Holger Neuhaus, Eric Schneiderlöchner EXTENSIVE COMPARISON OF SOLAR MODULES MANUFACTURED WITH SINGLE AND DOUBLE PRINTED CELLS Marco Galiazzo, Alessandro Voltan, Matteo Bertazzo, Wenjun Tao, Xi Zhang, Jinchao Shi, Duchao Zhang, Zhiyan Hu, Jianming Wang INTEGRATION PROCESSES FOR NPERT SI SOLAR CELLS USING SINGLE SIDE EMITTER EPITAXY AND FRONT SIDE LASER DOPING Izabela Kuzma-Filipek, Maria Recaman-Payo, Yuandong Li, Ali Hajjiah, Filip Duerinckx, Emanuele Cornagliotti, Angel Uruena De Castro, Aashish Sharma, Tom Borgers, Richard Russell, Loic Tous, Joachim John, Michael Haslinger, Monica Aleman, Jozef Szlufcik A COMPARISON STUDY OF N-TYPE PERT AND IBC CELL CONCEPTS WITH SCREEN PRINTED CONTACTS Valentin D. Mihailetchi, Haifeng Chu, Giuseppe Galbiati, Corrado Comparroto, Andreas Halm, Radovan Kopecek SOLAR CELLS WITH EPITAXIAL OR GAS PHASE DIFFUSED EMITTERS ABOVE 21% EFFICIENCY Thomas Rachow, Nena Milenkovic, Bernd Steinhauser, Jan Benick, Stefan Janz, Martin Hermle, Stefan Reber ENHANCED STABLE REGENERATION OF HIGH EFFICIENCY CZ PERC CELLS Franziska Wolny, Torsten Weber, Gerd Fischer, Axel Herguth, Svenja Wilking SILICON MATERIAL INLINE OPTICAL CVD FOR SILICON DEPOSITION AT LOW TEMPERATURE AND ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE André Augusto, Filipe Serra, Jorge M. Alves, António M. Vallêra, João M. Serra CHARACTERIZATION OF AL 2 O 3 THIN FILMS PREPARED BY THERMAL ALD Corina Barbos, Danièle Blanc-Pelissier, Alain Fave, Elisabeth Blanquet, Alexandre Crisci, Erwann Fourmond, David Albertini, Andreï Sabac, Khaled Ayadi, Philippe Girard, Mustapha Lemiti DO LOMER DISLOCATIONS SPOIL HIGH PERFORMANCE OF MC-SI SOLAR CELLS? Jan Bauer, Angelika Hähnel, Horst Blumtritt, Hakan Deniz, Annika Zuschlag, Otwin Breitenstein PSEUDO FF AND V OC ANALYSIS OF CZ-SI BASED LOW CONCENTRATOR SOLAR CELLS Tobias Fellmeth, Florian Clement, Daniel Biro INFLUENCE OF SI SURFACE ORIENTATION ON SCREEN-PRINTED AG/AL CONTACTS Susanne Fritz, Stefanie Riegel, Axel Herguth, Giso Hahn INFLUENCE OF COPPER DIFFUSION ON LIFETIME DEGRADATION IN N-TYPE CZOCHRALSKI SILICON FOR SOLAR CELLS Guilherme Gaspar, Chiara Modanese, Hendrik Schøn, Marisa Di Sabatino, Lars Arnberg, Eivind J. Øvrelid TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE MODEL FOR BO REGENERATION BY MEANS OF CHARGE STATE CONTROL OF HYDROGEN Marcus Gläser, Dominik Lausch LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF SILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH ALUMINIUMOXIDE PASSIVATED REAR SIDE Karin Krauss, Fabian Fertig, Dorothee Menzel, Stefan Rein SAW DAMAGE GETTERING FOR IMPROVED MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON George F. Martins, Phi Macdonald, Toby Burton, Ruy S. Bonilla, Peter R. Wilshaw EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF HIGH QUALITY N-TYPE SILICON FOILS IN A QUASI-INLINE APCVD REACTOR Nena Milenkovic, Thomas Rachow, Stefan Janz, Stefan Reber EFFECTS OF SOLAR CELL PROCESSING STEPS ON DISLOCATION LUMINESCENCE IN MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON Hieu T. Nguyen, Fiacre E. Rougieux, Fan Wang, Daniel Macdonald LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION AND REGENERATION IN N-TYPE SILICON Tim Niewelt, Juliane Broisch, Jonas Schön, Jonas Haunschild, Stefan Rein, Wilhelm Warta, Martin C. Schubert

8 EFFICIENCY POTENTIAL OF P- AND N-TYPE HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON Florian Schindler, Bernhard Michl, Patricia Krenckel, Stephan Riepe, Frank Feldmann, Jan Benick, Wilhelm Warta, Martin C. Schubert TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES IN MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Rune Søndenå, Charly Berthod, Jan Ove Odden, Anne-Karin Søiland, Marie Syre Wiig, Erik Stensrud Marstein LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY AND HYDROGENATION OF CHROMIUM IN N- AND P-TYPE CZ SILICON Chang Sun, Anyao Liu, Fiacre E. Rougieux, Daniel Macdonald MODELING OF INCREASED OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE THROUGH LOCALIZED EMITTER AREA ON SILICON SOLAR CELLS Peinan Teng, Xinrui An, Craig Johnson, Stuart Wenham, Thorsten Trupke, Allen Barnett CHARACTERIZATION OF N-TYPE MONO-CRYSTALLINE SILICON INGOTS PRODUCED BY CONTINUOUS CZOCHRALSKI (CZ) TECHNOLOGY Han Xu STRUCTURING AND CONTACT FORMATION DOPING LEVEL EFFECT ON SAMPLE TEMPERATURES IN INFRARED BELT FURNACE FIRING Evert E. Bende, John Anker PATTERN OF PARTIAL REAR CONTACTS FOR SILICON SOLAR CELLS Félix Gérenton, Fabien Mandorlo, Jean-Baptiste Brette, Mustapha Lemiti EFFECT OF AL CONCENTRATION ANALYZED BY ICP-OES ON THE STRUCTURAL, ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CO-SPUTTERED ZNO:AL FILMS Angelika Gorgulla, Dominik P. Ertel, Michael Steyer, Giso Hahn, Barbara Terheiden COMPREHENSIVE SIMULATION AND ACCELERATION OF THE FOIL-METALLIZATION LASER PROCESS Martin Graf, Jan Nekarda, Franciana Lazzarotto Togny, André Streek, Rico Böhme, Ralf Preu MICROSTRUCTURE OF VOID FORMATION STAGES AT LOCAL REAR CONTACTS Stephan Großer, Martina Werner, Christian Hagendorf SOL-GEL SYNTHESIZED DIELECTRIC FILMS AS A DIFFUSION BARRIER TO REAR SIDE CONTACT METAL Bilge Gündüz, Oliver Doll, Ingo Köhler, Jörg J. Schneider QUANTIFICATION OF FRONT SIDE METALLIZATION AREA ON SILICON WAFER SOLAR CELLS FOR BACKGROUND PLATING DETECTION Martin Heinrich, Achim Kraft, Martin Lieder, Bram Hoex, Armin G. Aberle, Markus Glatthaar THE INFLUENCE OF ITO DOPANT DENSITY ON J-V CHARACTERISTICS OF SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS: EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS Simon Kirner, Manuel Hartig, Luana Mazzarella, Lars Korte, Tim Frijnts, Harald Scherg-Kurmes, Sven Ring, Bernd Stannowski, Bernd Rech, Rutger Schlatmann ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PLATED NI/CU CONTACTS FOR SI SOLAR CELLS Sven Kluska, Jonas Bartsch, Andreas Büchler, Gisela Cimiotti, Andreas A. Brand, Sybille Hopman, Markus Glatthaar ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMER REAR INSULATION LAYERS FOR BACK CONTACT CELLS Zhongtian Li, Yang Li, Zi Ouyang, Pei-Chieh Hsiao, Yu Jiang, Alison Lennon BASE CONTACTS AND SELECTIVE EMITTERS PROCESSED BY LASER DOPING TECHNIQUE FOR P-TYPE IBC C-SI SOLAR CELLS Gema López, Pablo R. Ortega, Isidro Martín, Cristóbal Voz, Anna B. Morales, Albert Orpella, Ramón Alcubilla THE IMPACT OF N 2 ANNEAL ON LASER PROCESSED SILICON Lujia Xu, Klaus Weber, Xinbo Yang, Andreas Fell, Evan Franklin SURFACE MORPHOLOGY AND PASSIVATION HYBRID LASER-ETCHING-PROCESS FOR WAFER TEXTURING Verena Blattmann, Daniel Trusheim EXTRINSIC PASSIVATION OF SILICON SURFACES FOR SOLAR CELLS Ruy S. Bonilla, Christian Reichel, Martin Hermle, George Martins, Peter R. Wilshaw

9 UNIVERSAL PASSIVATION FOR P ++ AND N ++ AREAS ON IBC SOLAR CELLS Kai Carstens, Morris Dahlinger, Erik Hoffmann, Jürgen R. Köhler, Renate Zapf-Gottwick, Jürgen H. Werner MULTIFUNCTIONAL ICP-PECVD SILICON NITRIDE LAYERS FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY SILICON SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS Josh Engelhardt, Giso Hahn, Barbara Terheiden MORPHOLOGY AND HYDROGEN IN PASSIVATING AMORPHOUS SILICON LAYERS Sebastian Gerke, Hans-Werner Becker, Detlef Rogalla, Giso Hahn, Reinhart Job, Barbara Terheiden ADVANCED HYDROGENATION OF DISLOCATION CLUSTERS AND BORON-OXYGEN DEFECTS IN SILICON SOLAR CELLS Brett J. Hallam, Phill G. Hamer, Sisi Wang, Lihui Song, Nitin Nampalli, Malcolm D. Abbott, Catherine E. Chan, Doris Lu, Alison M. Wenham, Ly Mai, Nino Borojevic, Alex Li, Daniel Chen, Moon Yong Kim, Azmeer Azmi, Stuart Wenham HIERARCHICAL ETCHING FOR IMPROVED OPTICAL FRONT-SIDE PROPERTIES OF MONOCRYSTALLINE SI SOLAR CELLS Frank Heinemeyer, Verena Steckenreiter, Fabian Kiefer, Robby Peibst MANIPULATION OF STORED CHARGE DENSITY AND POLARITY IN ANODIC ALUMINIUM OXIDE FOR SILICON SOLAR CELL PASSIVATION Zhong Lu, Zi Ouyang, Nicholas Grant, Yimao Wan, Di Yan, Alison Lennon EFFECTIVE LIQUID SOURCE SIO 2 PASSIVATION ON N-TYPE SILICON USING PERHYDROPOLYSILAZANE Hiroshi Nagayoshi, Chihiro Hagiwara INVESTIGATION ON BLISTERING BEHAVIOR FOR N-TYPE SILICON SOLAR CELLS Zih-Wei Peng, Po-Tsung Hsieh, Yuan-Jun Lin, Chih-Jeng Huang, Chi-Chun Li IMPACT OF REAR SIDE ROUGHNESS ON OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF A HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELL Maxi Richter, Pierre Saint-Cast, Tobias Dannenberg, Martin Zimmer, Jochen Rentsch ULTRA-THIN TUNNEL OXIDES FORMED BY FIELD-INDUCED ANODISATION FOR CARRIER-SELECTIVE CONTACTS Jingnan Tong, Xi Wang, Zi Ouyang, Alison Lennon WAFERING AND KERFLESS TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVEMENT OF VOC FOR THIN RST SOLAR CELLS BY ENHANCED BACK SIDE PASSIVATION Benjamin Albrecht, Philipp Keller, Fabrice De Moro, Giso Hahn NUMERICAL MODELLING AND VALIDATION OF THERMALLY-INDUCED SPALLING Irene Berardone, Sarah Kajari-Schröder, Raphael Niepelt, Jan Hensen, Verena Steckenreiter, Marco Paggi EFFICIENCIES ABOVE 16% ON NOVEL QUASI-MONO RGS MATERIAL Yves Patrick Botchak Mouafi, Annika Zuschlag, Pierre-Yves Pichon, Axel Schönecker, Giso Hahn SOLAR CELLS FROM EPITAXIAL FOILS: AN EPIFOIL EPIPHANY Jonathan Govaerts, Christos Trompoukis, Hariharsudan S. Radhakrishnan, Loic Tous, Stefano N. Granata, Enrico G. Carnemolla, Roberto Martini, Alessio Marchegiani, Marwa Karim, Ivan Sharlandziev, Twan Bearda, Valerie Depauw, Kris Van Nieuwenhuysen, Ivan Gor DETERMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE WIRE VELOCITY ON THE SURFACE DAMAGE OF DIAMOND WIRE SAWN SILICON WAFERS Sindy Würzner, Annemarie Falke, Rajko Buchwald, Hans Joachim Möller Author Index