Screen printable silver paste for silicon solar cells with high sheet resistance emitters

Energy Procedia

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages 607-613

  Yang, Yi ^a   Seyedmohammadi, Shahram ^a   Kumar, Umesh ^a   Gnizak, Dave ^b   Graddy, Ed ^a   Shaikh, Aziz ^a  

^a Ferro Corporation   (United States)

^b Ferro Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Ag paste; Contact resistance; High sheet resistance emitter; Series resistance; Silicon solar cell; TLM

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; OHMIC CONTACTS; SHEET RESISTANCE; SILICON; SILICON WAFERS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS;

AG PASTES; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; EMITTER SHEET RESISTANCE; HIGH-SHEET-RESISTANCE EMITTER; LOW-RESISTANCE CONTACTS; PROCESS CONDITION; SERIES RESISTANCES; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 80052102156     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.06.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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