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Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 1983

Filed:

Mar. 15, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:

Donald E Thomas, Mt. Lebanon, PA (US);

Assignee:

Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
148174 ; 29572 ; 148175 ; 156613 ; 156D / ; 427 74 ; 427 75 ; 427 86 ; 427253 ;
Abstract

A substrate is made for silicon solar cells by heating a sheet of large-grained silicon steel at a temperature of at least about 1300.degree. C. in an atmosphere of hydrogen and tungsten hexafluoride (or hexachloride) at a partial pressure ratio of hydrogen to tungsten hexafluoride of about 3 to about 6 to deposit an epitaxial layer of tungsten on said sheet of silicon steel. Epitaxial silicon can then be deposited in a conventional manner on the layer of epitaxial tungsten.


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Thomas, Donald. (1983). Substrate for silicon solar cells (U.S. Patent No. 4402771). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4402771

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