Industrial PERL-Type si solar cells with efficiencies exceeding 19.5%

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 628-634

  Cacciato, Antonio ^a   Duerinckx, Filip ^a   Baert, Kasper ^a   Moors, Matthieu ^a   Caremans, Tom ^a   Leys, Guido ^a   Mrcarica, Milica ^a   Picard, Erwann ^a   Ristow, Alan ^a   Szlufcik, Jozef ^a  

^a Photovoltech NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Crystalline silicon solar cells; light induced degradation; local back surface field; passivated emitter, rear locally diffused (PERL)

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE EFFICIENCIES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CRYSTALLINE SI SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY INCREASE; LIGHT-INDUCED DEGRADATION; LOCAL BACK SURFACE FIELDS; PASSIVATED EMITTER, REAR LOCALLY DIFFUSED (PERL);

ALUMINUM; PASSIVATION; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SILICON WAFERS;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84875626711     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2012.2231725     Document Type: Article

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