Mass production of PV modules with 18% total-area efficiency and high energy delivery per peak watt

Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, WCPEC-4

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 2018-2023

  Rose, Doug ^a   Koehler, Oliver ^a   Kaminar, Neil ^a   Mulligan, Bill ^a   King, David ^b  

^a SunPower Corporation   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; SILICON;

HIGH ENERGY PRODUCTION; SILICON CELLS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 41749099445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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