Crystal Growth of Silicon for Solar Cells

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-14

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2. Feedstock

   • Eivind J. Øvreli, Kai Tang, Thorvald Engh, Merete Tangstad

   Pages 1-23

3. Czochralski Silicon Crystal Growth for Photovoltaic Applications

   • Chung-Wen Lan, Chao-Kuan Hsieh, Wen-Chin Hsu

   Pages 25-39

4. Floating Zone Crystal Growth

   • Helge Riemann, Anke Luedge

   Pages 41-53

5. Crystallization of Silicon by a Directional Solidification Method

   • Koichi Kakimoto

   Pages 55-69

6. Mechanism of Dendrite Crystal Growth

   • Kozo Fujiwara, Kazuo Nakajima

   Pages 71-82

7. Fundamental Understanding of Subgrain Boundaries

   • Kentaro Kutsukake, Noritaka Usami, Kozo Fujiwara, Kazuo Nakajima

   Pages 83-95

8. New Crystalline Si Ribbon Materials for Photovoltaics

   • Giso Hahn, Axel Schönecker, Astrid Gutjahr

   Pages 97-119

9. Crystal Growth of Spherical Si

   • Kosuke Nagashio, Kazuhiko Kuribayashi

   Pages 121-134

10. Liquid Phase Epitaxy

    • Alain Fave

    Pages 135-157

11. Vapor Phase Epitaxy

    • Mustapha Lemiti

    Pages 159-175

12. Thin-Film Poly-Si Formed by Flash Lamp Annealing

    • Keisuke Ohdaira

    Pages 177-191

13. Polycrystalline Silicon Thin-Films Formed by the Aluminum-Induced Layer Exchange (ALILE) Process

    • Stefan Gall

    Pages 193-218

14. Thermochemical and Kinetic Databases for the Solar Cell Silicon Materials

    • Kai Tang, Eivind J. Øvrelid, Gabriella Tranell, Merete Tangstad

    Pages 219-251

15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-269

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This book, a continuation of the series “Advances in Materials Research,” is intended to provide the general basis of the science and technology of crystal growth of silicon for solar cells. In the face of the destruction of the global environment,the degradationofworld-widenaturalresourcesandtheexha- tion of energy sources in the twenty-?rst century, we all have a sincere desire for a better/safer world in the future. In these days, we strongly believe that it is important for us to rapidly developanewenvironment-friendlycleanenergyconversionsystemusingsolar energyastheultimatenaturalenergysource. Forinstance,mostofournatural resources and energy sources will be exhausted within the next 100 years. Speci?cally, the consumption of oil, natural gas, and uranium is a serious problem. Solar energy is the only ultimate natural energy source. Although 30% of total solar energy is re?ected at the earth’s surface, 70% of total solar energy can be available for us to utilize. The available solar energy amounts to severalthousand times larger than the world’s energy consumption in 2000 of about 9,000 Mtoe (M ton oil equivalent). To manage 10% of the world’s energy consumption at 2050 by solar energy, we must manufacture 40 GW solar cells per year continuously for 40 years. The required silicon feedstock is about 400,000 ton per year. We believe that this is an attainable target, since it can be realized by increasing the world production of silicon feedstock by 12times asmuchasthe presentproductionat2005.

• Crystal growth
• Database solar materials
• Photovoltaic materials
• Silicon photonics
• Solar cell production
• photovoltaics
• solar cell
• thin film

• Inst. Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  Kazuo Nakajima, Noritaka Usami

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