Kinetics of Bulk Lifetime Degradation in Float-Zone Silicon: Fast Activation and Annihilation of Grown-In Defects and the Role of Hydrogen versus Light

Material Science

• Silicon 100%
• Solar Cell 50%
• Density 50%
• Photovoltaics 50%
• Carrier Lifetime 50%
• Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry 50%
• Hydrogenation 50%
• Deep-Level Transient Spectroscopy 50%

Engineering

• Defects 100%
• Bulk Lifetime 100%
• Dangling Bond 20%
• Solar Cell 10%
• Degradation Process 10%
• Conversion Efficiency 10%
• Deep Understanding 10%
• Photovoltaics 10%
• Carrier Lifetime 10%
• Experimental Result 10%
• Passivation 10%
• Transients 10%
• Minority Carriers 10%
• Hole Pair 10%
• Deep Level 10%
• Hydrogenation 10%
• Recombination Centre 10%
• Formation Energy 10%