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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