Aluminum alloying in local contact areas on dielectrically passivated rear surfaces of silicon solar cells

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 916-918

  Rauer, Michael ^a   Woehl, Robert ^a   Ruhle, Karola ^a   Schmiga, Christian ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Horteis, Matthias ^a   Biro, Daniel ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aluminum alloying; local back surface field; local emitter; silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM PASTE; BACK SURFACE FIELDS; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT DEPTH; CONTACT FORMATION; CONTACT GEOMETRY; CONTACT POINTS; LOCAL EMITTER; PASSIVATION LAYER; REAR SURFACES;

ALLOYING; ALUMINUM; END EFFECTORS; PASSIVATION; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 79959804047     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2011.2143385     Document Type: Article

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