SunPower's Maxeon Gen III solar cell: High efficiency and energy yield

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 908-913

  Smith, David D ^a   Cousins, Peter J ^a   Masad, Asnat ^a   Westerberg, Staffan ^a   Defensor, Michael ^a   Ilaw, Reynold ^a   Dennis, Tim ^a   Daquin, Rhea ^a   Bergstrom, Neil ^a   Leygo, Arjelene ^a   Zhu, Xi ^a   Meyers, Bennet ^a   Bourne, Ben ^a   Shields, Mark ^a   Rose, Doug ^a  

^a SunPower Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Passivation; Photovoltaic cells; Reverse bias; Silicon; Temperature coefficient

Indexed keywords

PASSIVATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON;

CONTACT STRUCTURE; FIELD PERFORMANCE; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LOWER TEMPERATURES; PRODUCTION FACILITY; REVERSE BIAS; REVERSE BREAKDOWN VOLTAGE; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84896465425     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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