Advanced screen printing technique for high definition front side metallization of crystalline silicon solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-61

  Erath, Denis ^a   Filipović, Aleksander ^a   Retzlaff, Marc ^a   Goetz, Anne Kathrin ^a   Clement, Florian ^a   Biro, Daniel ^a   Preu, Ralf ^a  

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

Author keywords

Metallization; Screen printing; Seed layer; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY GAIN; HIGH DEFINITION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; METALLIZATION; METALLIZATIONS; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SCREEN PRINT; SCREEN PRINTING TECHNIQUE; SEED LAYER; SILICON SURFACES; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; METALLIZING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PRINTING PRESSES; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

SCREEN PRINTING;

EID: 70449530769     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.05.018     Document Type: Article

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