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Silicon Purification by a New Type of Solar Furnace |
| CHEN Ying-Tian1,2, LIM Chern-Sing1, HO Tso-Hsiu2, LIM Boon-Han1, WANG Yi-Nan3 |
| 1Department of Astronomy and Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 2300262Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 1001903Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 |
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CHEN Ying-Tian, LIM Chern-Sing, HO Tso-Hsiu et al 2009 Chin. Phys. Lett. 26 078103 |
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Abstract We propose a new method to reveal a direct transformation from solar energy to solar electricity. Instead of using electricity in the process, we use concentrated solar rays with a crucibleless process to upgrade metallurgical silicon into solar-grade silicon feedstock.
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Received: 06 May 2009
Published: 02 July 2009
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[2] del Coso G et al 2009 Proceedings of the 2009 SpanishConference on Electron Devices
[3] Flamant G et al 2006 Solar Energy Material and SolarCell 90 2099
[4] Chen Y T et al 2002 Solar Energy 72 531
[5] Chen Y T et al 2005 Solar Energy 79 280 |
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