Industrial PERL-type solar cells exceeding 19% with screen-printed contacts and homogeneous emitter

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 106, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-88

  Moors, Matthieu ^a   Baert, Kasper ^a   Caremans, Tom ^a   Duerinckx, Filip ^a   Cacciato, Antonio ^a   Szlufcik, Jozef ^a  

^a Photovoltech NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BSF; ELA; High efficiency; LFC; PERL; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

BSF; ELA; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LFC; PERL;

OPTIMIZATION; PILOT PLANTS; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84865462206     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.05.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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