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International Journal of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Volume 1 (2015), Article ID 1:IJMME-101, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2015/101
Research Article
How do Impurity Inclusions Influence the Mechanical Properties of Multicrystalline Silicon?

T. Orellana1,2,*, E. M. Tejado3, C. Funke2, W. Fütterer2, S. Riepe1, H. J. Moller2, J. Y. Pastor3

1Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Heidenhofstrasse 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany
2Institute for Experimental Physics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Strasse 23, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany
3Departameto de Ciencia de Materiales-CISDEM, E.T.S.I. de Caminos, Canales y Puertos Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-CSICC/ Profesor Aranguren s.n. 28040 Madrid, Spain
Dr. Teresa Orellana-perez, Institute for Experimental Physics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Leipziger Strasse 23, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany; E-mail: teresa.orellana-perez@physik.tu-freiberg.de
19 December 2014; 03 February 2015; 05 February 2015
Orellana T, Tejado EM, Funke C, Fütterer W, Riepe S, et al. (2015) How do Impurity Inclusions Influence the Mechanical Properties of Multicrystalline Silicon?. Int J Metall Mater Eng 1: 101. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-2372/2015/101
This work was supported by the Fraunhofer Society in the frame of the project Si-Beacon, the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, MAT2009-13979-C03, and the Comunidad de Madrid, S-S2009/ MAT-1585-ESTRUMAT2.
© 2015 Orellana et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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