Enhanced silicon solar cell performance by rapid thermal firing of screen-printed metals

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2836-2841

  Jeong, Ji Weon ^a,b   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a,b   Yelundur, Vijay ^b   Ebong, Abasifreke ^a,c,d   Rosenblum, Mark D ^e   Kalejs, Juris P ^e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e ASE Americas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Back surface field (BSF); Photovoltaic cells; Rapid thermal processing (RTP); Screen printing (SP); Silicon

Indexed keywords

RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING (RTP);

PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCREEN PRINTING;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0035691660     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.974713     Document Type: Article

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