Scribing of thin-film solar cells with picosecond laser pulses

Physics Procedia

Volumn 12, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 141-148

  Gecys, Paulius ^a   Raciukaitis, Gediminas ^a   Miltenisa, Eimantas ^a   Braun, Alexander ^b   Ragnow, Steffen ^b  

^a CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b Solarion GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIGS; Picosecond laser; Raman spectra; Solar cell efficiency; Solar cell scribing; Thin film

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LASER BEAMS; MANUFACTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RAMAN SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

CIGS; LASER SCRIBING PROCESS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECOND LASER; PICOSECOND LASER PULSE; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79959486837     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2011.03.116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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