Understanding the impact of double screen-printing on silicon solar cells by 2-D numerical simulations

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 002177-002180

  Magnone, P ^a   De Rose, R ^a,b   Zanuccoli, M ^a   Tonini, D ^c   Galiazzo, M ^c   Cellere, G ^c   Guo, H W ^d   Frei, M ^d   Sangiorgi, E ^a   Fiegna, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c Applied Materials Italia Srl ^*  (Italy)

^d APPLIED MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; C-SI SOLAR CELL; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FILL FACTOR;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SCREEN PRINTING; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861050107     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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