Progress in the development of all-back-contacted silicon solar cells

Energy Procedia

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Zin, Ngwe ^a   Blakers, Andrew ^a   Franklin, Evan ^a   Kho, Teng ^a   Mcintosh, Keith ^b   Wong, Johnson ^c   Mueller, Thomas ^c   Aberle, Armin G ^c   Yang, Yang ^d   Zhang, Xueling ^d   Feng, Zhiqiang ^d   Huang, Qiang ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PV Lighthouse   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d State Key Laboratory for Photovoltaic Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

All back contacted silicon solar cells; LPCVD; PCD; PECVD; Texturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890745758     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.07.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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