Programme and presentations SiNx fundamentals workshop

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The detailed programme of the workshop is presented below.
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Opening

Welcome on behalf of the CrystalClear consortium

8:30

Deposition systems

 

 

Saul Winderbaum

Roth and Rau AG, Germany

A personal view on the status of PV manufacturing industrial processes 2005.

8:45

B. Hoex, P.J. van den Oever

Technical university Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Silicon nitride antireflection coatings with excellent surface and bulk passivation properties deposited at high rates by the expanding thermal plasma.

9:10

Thomas Pernau

Centrotherm GmbH, Germany

A closer look inside Centrotherm parallel plate PECVD reactors.

9:35

Coffee break

 

10:00

Winfried Wolke

Fraunhofer ISE, Germany

Bulk passivation with sputtered silicon nitride: a comparison to PECVD.

10:15

Vasco Verlaan

University of Utrecht,

The Netherlands

Hydrogen evolution in hot-wire deposited SiNx layers during a 800°C anneal with calibrated proportionality constants.

10:40

Summary

 

11:05

Bulk passivation I

 

 

Markus Rinio

Fraunhofer ISE-LSG, Germany

Recombination activity of extended defects in mc-Si after different solar cell processes.

11:10

Giso Hahn

University of Konstanz, Germany

Hydrogen kinetics in crystalline silicon  PECVD SiN studies in mc and Cz silicon.

11:35

Lode Carnel

IMEC, Belgium

Hydrogenation of thin film poly-crystalline silicon solar cells.

12:00

Discussion

 

12:25

Lunch

 

12:50

 

 

 

Bulk passivation II

 

 

Bhushan Sopori

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

Surface Damage-Mediated H Diffusion during SiN:H Processing.

13:35

Wolfhard Beyer

FZJ, Germany

Effusion of hydrogen and (implanted) rare gases from amorphous silicon materials.

14:00

Coffee break

 

14:25

Ingrid Romijn

ECN, The Netherlands

SiNx:H passivation: How to obtain the maximum efficiency for mc-Si solar cells.

14:40

Harold Dekkers

IMEC, Belgium

Release mechanism of bonded hydrogen from a-SiNx:H layers for bulk passivation of multi-crystalline silicon solar cells.

15:15

Discussion

 

15:50

Coffee break

 

16:15

Surface passivation

 

 

Jan Schmidt

ISFH, Germany

Surface Passivation of Silicon Solar Cells using SiN: the effect of space charge recombination.

16:30

Kyuyoul Lee

Samsung SDI, Korea

The Effects of SiNx:H/a-Si Double Layer as Passivation Layer on c-Si Substrate.

16:55

 

 

 

J-F. Lelièvre

LPM-INSA de Lyon, France

Influence of stoechiometry and deposition temperatures on surface and bulk passivation properties of hydrogenatated silicon nitride SiNx:H deposited by LF-PECVD

17:45

L. Serenelli

ENEA, Italy

 

Electrical characterization of SiNx surface passivation layers under uv light exposure.

18:10

Guido Agostinelli

IMEC, Belgium

Limitations of SiNx:H as rear surface passivation layer for industrial silicon solar cells.

18:35

Discussion

 

19:00

Conclusions and wrap-up

19:25

Dinner

20.00

 

 







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