High-efficiency large-area rear passivated silicon solar cells with local Al-BSF and screen-printed contacts

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-21

  Lai, Jiun Hong ^a   Upadhyaya, Ajay ^a   Ramanathan, Saptharishi ^a   Das, Arnab ^a   Tate, Keith ^a   Upadhyaya, Vijaykumar ^a   Kapoor, Aditya ^a   Chen, Chia Wei ^a   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Suniva Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Passivation; photovoltatics; silicon; solar cells; surface charging

Indexed keywords

BACK CONTACT; BACK SURFACE FIELDS; BACK-SURFACE FIELD; BACK-SURFACE RECOMBINATION VELOCITY; CELL DESIGN; CELL STRUCTURE; COMMERCIAL GRADE; CZOCHRALSKI SI; FILL FACTOR; INTERFACE QUALITY; MODEL CALCULATIONS; OXIDE CHARGE; OXIDE THICKNESS; PHOTOVOLTATICS; REAR SURFACES; SCREEN-PRINTED; SURFACE CHARGING; SURFACE PASSIVATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVATION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84865170964     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2011.2163151     Document Type: Article

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