Understanding the mechanism of light induced plating of silver on screen-printed contacts for high sheet resistance emitters with low surface phosphorus concentration

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ebong, A ^a   Kim, D S ^a   Rohatgi, A ^a   Zhang, W ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Heraeus Incorporated Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

high sheet resistance emitter; LIP; Screen printed

Indexed keywords

FINGER RESISTANCE; HIGH-SHEET-RESISTANCE EMITTER; LIGHT-INDUCED PLATINGS; LIP; PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION; SCREEN-PRINTED; SILVER METAL; SURFACE CONCENTRATION;

CONTACT RESISTANCE; GLASS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; SHEET RESISTANCE;

SILVER;

EID: 84879714863     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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