Metal fingers on grain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-13

  Ebner, Rita ^a   Radike, Michael ^a   Schlosser, Viktor ^b   Summhammer, Johann ^a  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contact resistance; Finger grid; Grain boundary; Multicrystalline silicon; Ohmic loss; Recombination; Screen painting; Solar cell metallization

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INGOTS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SCREEN PRINTING; SOLAR ENERGY;

MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 0037244145     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.455     Document Type: Article

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