Crystallization is the lengthy natural process of formation of highly ordered structure of atoms that is today currently utilized in technology by artificially precipitating solid crystals from a solution, melt or gases to realize crystal structure. The growth of silicon Crystals is perhaps the the most important technological topics of the last decades—the "silicon era" because It has been essential for the development of the electronic devices and solar cells
X-rays interact with matter through photoabsorption, Compton scattering, and Rayleigh scattering. The strength of these interactions depend on the energy of the X-rays and the elemental composition of the material This SOPHIA webinar introduces two powerful spectroscopic tools to investigate solar cell surfaces and interfaces.
The webinar launched in the frame of SOPHi@Webinar and 7FP-CHEETAH project concerns the introduction to the procedure based on the transfer-matrix method (TMM) utilized @ HZB to extract optical parameters in thin film for PV. The procedure is available in request
The efficiency of a solar cells is limited by defects and impurities Twidely present in commercial solar cells. The primary goal of materials research in photovoltaics is overcoming these lifetime-limiting defects, which include in multicrystalline solar cells: Grain boundaries, dislocations, and transition metals.