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Effect of grain boundary grooves at the crystal/melt interface on impurity accumulation during the unidirectional growth of multicrystalline silicon

Mokhtari et al., 2016

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6396293820562896081
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Mokhtari M
Fujiwara K
Koizumi H
Nozawa J
Uda S
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Scripta Materialia

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Impurity accumulation at the grain boundaries in multicrystalline Si (mc-Si) was investigated by in situ observation of the crystal/melt interface, analysis of the grain boundary characteristics, and measurement of impurity concentrations. The impurity concentration was …
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