Design and characterization of an adhesion strength tester for evaluating metal contacts on silicon solar cells

2014 IEEE 40th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2550-2553

  Young, Trevor L ^a   Hee, Kenneth ^a   Lennon, Alison J ^b   Egan, Renate J ^a   Wilkie, Oscar ^b   Yao, Yu ^b  

^a Sydney Olympic Park   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

adhesive strength; metal plating; photovoltaic cell metallization; pull test; scratch tester; silicon; solar cell

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLATING; SILICON; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ADHESIVE BOND; ADHESIVE STRENGTH; CONTACTING TECHNOLOGY; HORIZONTAL FORCES; METAL CONTACTS; SCAN SPEED; SCRATCH TEST; SCRATCH TESTER;

ADHESION;

EID: 84912104637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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