Investigating manufacturing options for industrial PERL-type Si solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 153-159

  Cacciato, Antonio ^a,b   Duerinckx, Filip ^a   Baert, Kasper ^a   Moors, Matthieu ^a   Caremans, Tom ^a   Leys, Guido ^a   De Keersmaecker, Koen ^a   Szlufcik, Jozef ^a  

^a Photovoltech NV   (Belgium)

^b not available   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BSF; ELA; High efficiency; PERL; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; METALLIZING; PASSIVATION; POLISHING; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; THERMOOXIDATION;

COST CALCULATION; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; PASSIVATION PROCESS; PERL; REDUCED PRODUCTION; SCREEN-PRINTED; SURFACE PRE-TREATMENTS; THERMAL OXIDATION;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84875147913     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.02.012     Document Type: Article

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