The emergence of the high-performance multi-crystalline silicon (HP mc-Si) in 2011 has
made a significant impact to photovoltaic industry. In addition to the much better ingot …

Cast‐mono silicon (CM‐Si) is a promising substrate to fabricate cost‐effective photovoltaic
(PV) wafers used for solar cells with higher efficiency compared with conventional cast …

This work is dedicated to the advanced in situ X-ray imaging and complementary ex situ
investigations of the growth mechanisms when silicon solidifies on a monocrystalline seed …

Silicon has remained the material of choice for both the microelectronic and photovoltaic
(PV) industries for a few decades. In addition to its abundance, silicon can be refined to an …

China has emerged as the global manufacturing center for solar photovoltaic (PV) products.
Chinese firms have entered all stages of the supply chain, producing most of the installed …

Silicon scraps, as the by-product of solar cells, have received more and more attention for its
recycling with the continuing development of the cleaner production. However, hard …

Two different process approaches for growing high-performance multi-crystalline silicon
(HPM-Si) material for photovoltaic applications are presented. Assisted nucleation was …

An effective method for ingot quality control in directional solidification by using artificially
designed quartz coating as seed is demonstrated in this paper. Quartz powders sprayed at …

A transient global model was established to investigate the effect of the raise velocities of the
partition block on the crystal growth rate, the crystal–melt (C–M) interface and the thermal …

We report on our attempt to perform the three-dimensional (3D) visualization of dislocation
clusters in multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) ingot by processing photoluminescence (PL) …