High efficiency screen printed low-medium concentrator silicon solar cells with direct printed 50μm wide fingers

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 928-931

  Chen, Chia Wei ^a   Chen, Xu Dong ^b   Church, Kenneth ^b   Yang, Haixin ^c   Tate, Keith ^a   Cooper, Ian ^a   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^a,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b nScrypt Inc   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d Founder and CTO of Suniva Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

concentrator; screen printed; silicon

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATOR; CONCENTRATOR CELLS; DIRECT PRINTING; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; METAL COVERAGES; METAL PASTE; NON-CONTACT; PEAK EFFICIENCY; SCREEN-PRINTED; SILICON CELLS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); METALS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84869380004     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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