Silicon 2.0: The nature of grown-in defects in very high-purity silicon

该项目旨在生产技术，以最大限度地提高硅的电子质量，并减轻缺陷对高效太阳能电池的负面影响。预期的成果是开发新的太阳能电池工艺，以生产无缺陷的硅和新的表征技术，以成像硅晶片中的缺陷。这将使高效太阳能电池克服其电流限制，并释放当前工艺的潜力，生产效率超过26%的太阳能电池，提供更高效和更实惠的太阳能电力。

This project aims to produce technologies to maximise the electronic quality of silicon and mitigate the negative impacts of defects on high-efficiency solar cells. The intended outcomes are the development of novel solar cell processes to produce defect-free silicon and new characterisation techniques to image defects in silicon wafers. This would allow high efficiency solar cells to overcome their current limits and unlock the potential of current processes to produce solar cells with efficiency above 26 per cent, providing more efficient and affordable solar electricity.