Performance improvement of amorphous silicon see-through solar modules with high transparency by the multi-line ns-laser scribing technique

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1206-1212

  Wang, J ^a   Wang, H ^a   Du, J ^a   Sun, R ^a   Xu, C ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Wang, D ^a   Liu, T ^a   Huang, Y ^a   Jia, H ^a   Mai, Y ^a  

^a Baoding Tianwei Solarfilms Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Laser scribing; See through solar module; Shunt; Weak light performance

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); LASER SCRIBING; MODULE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; SHUNT; SOLAR MODULE; STANDARD TEST CONDITION (STC); WEAK LIGHTS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; TRANSPARENCY;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84879105977     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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