0.4% Absolute efficiency gain of industrial solar cells by laser doped selective emitter

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 000871-000873

  Roder T ^a   Grabitz, P ^b   Eisele, S ^a   Wagner, C ^a   Kohler J R ^a   Werner, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b SOLARWATT Cells GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS DOPING; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; DOPING CONCENTRATION; EFFICIENCY GAIN; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; EMITTER SURFACES; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION LINES; INDUSTRIAL SOLAR CELLS; LASER DOPING; LASER PROCESSING; METALLIZATIONS; MONOCRYSTALLINE; PATENTED PROCESS; PHOSPHOR-SILICATE GLASS; PHOSPHORUS ATOM; PROCESSING STEPS; SELECTIVE EMITTERS;

FURNACES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOSPHORUS; PLASMAS; SILICATES; SOLAR CELLS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES);

EID: 77951544433     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2009.5411149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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