The Chinese module maker and the Australian National University utilized phosphorus diffusion gettering and another defect mitigation strategy to improve the quality of n-type wafers. The proposed ...

Scientists from Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE – together with a consortium of plant manufacturers, metrology companies, and research institutions – have developed a new production line concept for ...

With the market’s increasing demand for efficiency and quality, monocrystalline N-type cells have over recent years become a hot technology for the industrialization of high-efficiency cells, due to ...

Since Q3 2021, most specialized wafer manufacturers have been mainly focusing on production of large-size wafers, while downstream cell and module manufacturers have been moving forward with the ...

Asymmetries in wafer map defects are usually treated as random production hardware defects. For example, asymmetric wafer defects can be caused by particles inadvertently deposited on a wafer during ...

Despite their clear efficiency advantages, high-resistivity, lightly doped silicon wafers have seen limited adoption ...

Semiconductor logic and memory technology development continues to push the limits of process complexity and cost, especially as the industry migrates to the 5 nm node and beyond. Optimization of the ...