Rear-side contact opening by laser ablation for industrial screen-printed aluminium local back surface field silicon wafer solar cells

Energy Procedia

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-27

  Du, Zheren ^a   Palina, Natalia ^a   Chen, Jia ^a   Hong, Minghui ^a   Hoex, Bram ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Al LBSF cells; Contact opening; Laser ablation; Post laser etching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875609297     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.07.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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