Development of heterojunction back contact Si solar cells

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1491-1495

  Nakamura, Junichi ^a   Asano, Naoki ^a   Hieda, Takeshi ^a   Okamoto, Chikao ^a   Katayama, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakamura, Kyotaro ^b  

^a SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back contact (BC); cell efficiency; heterojunction; patterning process; solar cell

Indexed keywords

SOLAR CELLS;

BACK CONTACT; CELL EFFICIENCY; PATTERNING PROCESS; SI SOLAR CELLS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84908235784     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2358377     Document Type: Article

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