Industrial high performance crystalline silicon solar cells and modules based on rear surface passivation technology

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 120, Issue PART A, 2014, Pages 417-425

  Metz, Axel ^a,c   Adler, Dennis ^a   Bagus, Stefan ^a   Blanke, Henry ^a   Bothar, Michael ^a   Brouwer, Eva ^a   Dauwe, Stefan ^a   Dressler, Katharina ^a   Droessler, Raimund ^a   Droste, Tobias ^a   Fiedler, Markus ^a   Gassenbauer, Yvonne ^a   Grahl, Thorsten ^a   Hermert, Norman ^a   Kuzminski, Wojtek ^b   Lachowicz, Agata ^a   Lauinger, Thomas ^a   Lenck, Norbert ^a   Manole, Mihail ^a   Martini, Marcel ^a   Messmer, Rudi ^b   Meyer, Christine ^a   Moschner, Jens ^a   Ramspeck, Klaus ^a   Roth, Peter ^a   Schönfelder, Ruben ^a   Schum, Berthold ^a   Sticksel, Jörg ^a   Vaas, Knut ^a   Volk, Michael ^a   Wangemann, Klaus ^a   more..

^a SCHOTT Solar AG   (Germany)

^b POLYTEC GMBH   (Germany)

^c Halm Elektronik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystalline silicon; Photovoltaic module; Plating; Rear surface passivation; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

APERTURE-AREA EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS; CRYSTALLINE SILICON WAFERS; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; RECORD EFFICIENCIES; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PASSIVATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLATING; SOLAR CELLS;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84888310970     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2013.06.025     Document Type: Article

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