Report
Silicon-on-ceramic process: silicon sheet growth and device development for the Large-Area Silicon Sheet and Cell Development Tasks of the Low-Cost Solar Array Project. Quarterly report No. 11, January 1-March 30, 1979
| العنوان: | Silicon-on-ceramic process: silicon sheet growth and device development for the Large-Area Silicon Sheet and Cell Development Tasks of the Low-Cost Solar Array Project. Quarterly report No. 11, January 1-March 30, 1979 |
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| المؤلفون: | Chapman, P. W., Zook, J. D., Heaps, J. D., Grung, B. L., Koepke, B., Schuldt, S. B. |
| بيانات النشر: | Honeywell Corporate Material Sciences Center, Bloomington, MN (USA) |
| سنة النشر: | 1979 |
| المجموعة: | University of North Texas: UNT Digital Library |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ion Exchange Materials, Elements, Direct Energy Converters, Solar Cells, 36 Materials Science, Dipped Coatings, Antireflection Coatings, Efficiency, Deposition, Sheets, Carbon, Minerals, Semimetals, Ceramics, Electrical Properties, Photovoltaic Cells, Crystal Structure, Production, Graphite, Physical Properties, Inorganic Ion Exchangers, Substrates, Dip Coating, 14 Solar Energy, Mullite, Silicon Solar Cells, Photoelectric Cells, Microstructure, Crystals, Coatings |
| الوصف: | The purpose of the research program is to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of producing solar-cell-quality sheet silicon by coating inexpensive ceramic substrates with a thin layer of polycrystalline silicon. The coating methods to be developed are directed toward a minimum-cost process for producing solar cells with a terrestrial conversion efficiency of 12 percent or greater. By applying a graphite coating to one face of a ceramic substrate, molten silicon can be caused to wet only that graphite-coated face and produce uniform thin layers of large-grain polycrystalline silicon; thus, only a minimal quantity of silicon is consumed. A dip-coating method for putting silicon on ceramic (SOC) has been shown to produce solar-cell-quality sheet silicon. This method and a continuous coating process also being investigated have excellent scale-up potential which offers an outstanding, cost-effective way to manufacture large-area solar cells. Results and accomplishments are described. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | report |
| وصف الملف: | 45 pages; Text |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | rep-no: DOE/JPL/954356-1; grantno: NAS-7-100-954356; osti: 5949870; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1103615/; ark: ark:/67531/metadc1103615 |
| DOI: | 10.2172/5949870 |
| الاتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.2172/5949870 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1103615/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.8D3E808A |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.2172/5949870 |
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