A low cost kerfless thin crystalline Si solar cell technology

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1837-1840

  Rao, R A ^a   Mathew, L ^a   Sarkar, D ^b   Smith, S ^a   Saha, S ^a   Garcia, R ^a   Stout, R ^a   Gurmu, A ^a   Ainom, M ^a   Onyegam, E ^c   Xu, D ^a   Jawarani, D ^a   Fossum, J ^b   Banerjee, S ^c   Das, U ^d   Upadhyaya, A ^e   Rohatgi, A ^e   Wang, Q ^f  

^a AstroWatt   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

heterojunction; kerfless; photovoltaic cells; silicon; thin crystalline

Indexed keywords

BACK SURFACE FIELDS; BULK RECOMBINATION; CRYSTALLINE SI; EXFOLIATION PROCESS; HETEROJUNCTION DEVICES; HETEROJUNCTION EMITTERS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; KERFLESS; LOW COSTS; MONOCRYSTALLINE; PHOTOVOLTAIC INDUSTRY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SCALING DOWN; SI SOLAR CELLS; SI WAFER; SURFACE PASSIVATION; THIN SILICON WAFER; ULTRA-THIN; WAFER THICKNESS; YIELD LOSS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TECHNOLOGY;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84869454443     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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