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This work was financially supported by (1) the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and all the industry partners within the research cluster "SolarFocus", (2) the Max-Planck Society within the project "Nanostress", and (3) the European Commission within the FP7-Energy priority project "High-EF". Within the "High-EF" project, Horiba Scientific developed the DuoScan hardware and the SWIFT software that permit fast, large area Raman analyses. The first demonstrator was deployed to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light for further development of this technique with respect to applications in photovoltaics. The authors are thankful for this great research opportunity. We would also like to thank A. Gawlik of IPHT for preparing the laser crystallized samples used in this study as well as to M. Holla and W. Seifert of Joint Lab IHP/BTU for their help with the EBIC measurements and fruitful discussions. The content of this publication is the responsibility of the authors.

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