Investigation of aluminum-alloyed local contacts for rear surface-passivated silicon solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-28

  Rauer, Michael ^a   Schmiga, Christian ^a   Woehl, Robert ^a   Rühle, Karola ^a   Hermle, Martin ^a   Hörteis, Matthias ^a   Biro, Daniel ^a   Glunz, Stefan W ^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; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT DEPTH; CONTACT FORMATION; CONTACT POINTS; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; INTERNAL REFLECTANCE; LOCAL ALLOYING; LOCAL EMITTER; PASSIVATION LAYER; SI CONTENT; SPECIFIC RESISTIVITIES; UPPER LIMITS;

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

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84865154491     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2161864     Document Type: Article

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