RETRACTED: Characterization of recombination properties at diffused surfaces for industrial silicon solar cell concepts

• Published in: Solar energy 2016-10, Vol.135, p.215-221
• Main Authors: Rahman, Md. Momtazur, Mahamudul, Hasan, Hasan, Md. Nazmul
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0038-092X; 1471-1257
• DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2016.05.042

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and with the agreement of the authors. The paper contains data that is proprietary to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany. In addition, the paper duplicates part of a paper that had already appeared: Precise parameterization of the recombination velocity at passivated phosphorus doped surfaces; Achim Kimmerle et al.; Journal of Applied Physics 119, 025706 (2016); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4939960. Specifically, figures 5 and 6 of this paper are the same as figures 4a and 4b of the paper that earlier appeared in Journal of Applied Physics. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.