Development of industrial high-efficiency back-contact czochralski-silicon solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 887-893

  Gee, James M ^a   Kumar, Prabhat ^a   Howarth, James ^a   Schroeder, Todd ^a   Franklin, Jeff ^a   Dominguez, Jason ^a   Tanner, David ^a  

^a APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

back contact solar cells; EWT; silicon solar cells

Indexed keywords

BACK-CONTACT CELLS; BACK-CONTACT SOLAR CELLS; CELL STRUCTURE; CZ SILICON; ELECTRICAL LOSS; EMITTER-WRAP-THROUGH; EWT; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING; METALLIZATIONS; P-TYPE; P-TYPE SI; ROADMAP; SCREEN-PRINTED;

INDUSTRY; LOSS PREVENTION; METALLIZING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052929464     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.1075     Document Type: Article

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