New laser-based approaches to improve the passivation and rear contact quality in high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8826, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Molpeceres, Carlos ^a   Colina, Mónica ^b   Munoz Martin, David ^a   Martín, Isidro ^b   Ortega, Pablo ^b   Sánchez, Isabel ^a   Morales, Miguel ^a   Lauzurica, Sara ^a   García Ballesteros, Juan J ^a   Voz, Cristóbal ^b   López, Gema ^b   Morales, Ana Belén ^b   Alcubilla, Ramón ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crystalline silicon; Heterojunction solar cells; Laser doping; Laser fired contact; Surface passivation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LASER DOPING; LASER-FIRED CONTACTS; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON; SOLAR ENERGY;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84886700917     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2026202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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