Screen-printable silver pastes with metallic nano-zinc and nano-zinc alloys for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 606-611

  Ionkin, Alex S ^a   Fish, Brian M ^a   Li, Zhigang Rick ^a   Lewittes, Mark ^a   Soper, Paul D ^a   Pepin, John G ^a   Carroll, Alan F ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metallization paste; Microscopy; Nanozinc; Photovoltaic; Silicon; Silicon nitride; Silver

Indexed keywords

CELL EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; CURRENT FLOWS; INTERFACIAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; MICROSTRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS; NANO-SIZED; NANOZINC; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SILVER METALLIZATION; SILVER PASTES; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TUNNELING MECHANISM;

ADDITIVES; CONTACT RESISTANCE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALLIZING; MICROMETERS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON ALLOYS; SILICON NITRIDE; SILVER; SILVER ALLOYS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC PLATING;

ZINC;

EID: 84862833433     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am1011996     Document Type: Article

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