Progress in screen printed front side metallization schemes for CSiTF solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 134-137

  Rentsch, Jochen ^a   Huljić, Dominik M ^a   Reber, Stefan ^a   Preu, Ralf ^a   Lüdemann, Ralf ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC INSULATION; METALLIZING; SCREEN PRINTING; SILICON WAFERS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS;

ALUMINUM PASTES; BURIED BASE CONTACT; CRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS; INTERDIGITATED CELLS; SILVER ALUMINIDE PASTES;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0036953636     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190474     Document Type: Article

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