Contacting interdigitated back-contact solar cells with four busbars for precise current-voltage measurements under standard testing conditions

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 247-255

  Schinke, Carsten ^a   Kiefer, Fabian ^a   Offer, Matthias ^a   Hinken, David ^a   Schmidt, Arne ^a   Harder, Nils Peter ^a   Bock, Robert ^b   Brendemühl, Till ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a,c   Bothe, Karsten ^a   Brendel, Rolf ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY RESEARCH HAMELIN ISFH   (Germany)

^b Bosch Solar Energy AG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current voltage characteristics; fill factor; interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cell

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; CONTACT GEOMETRY; CURRENT-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; FILL FACTOR; FINGER RESISTANCE; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; STANDARD TESTING; VOLTAGE DROP;

BUSBARS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; METALLIZING; SOLAR CELLS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84865184512     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2195637     Document Type: Article

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