High speed non-contact printing for solar cell front side metallization

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1343-1347

  Chen, Xudong ^a   Church, Kenneth ^a   Yang, Haixin ^b  

^a nScrypt Inc   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fine line; High aspect ratio; Metallization; Non contact; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY INCREASE; FINE GRIDS; FINE LINE; GRID LINE; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH SPEED; HIGH-SPEED PRINTING; LINE PRINTING; METALLIZATIONS; NON-CONTACT; NON-CONTACT PRINTING; ONE-STEP PROCESS; SILVER PASTES;

METALLIZING; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PRINTING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 78650087306     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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