>23% High-efficiency tunnel oxide junction bifacial solar cell with electroplated Cu gridlines

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 82-86

  Heng, Jiunn Benjamin ^a   Fu, Jianming ^a   Kong, Bob ^a   Chae, Yongkee ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Xie, Zhigang ^a   Reddy, Anand ^a   Lam, Kevin ^a   Beitel, Chris ^a   Liao, Chris ^a   Erben, Christoph ^a   Huang, Zhiquan ^a   Xu, Zheng ^a  

^a Silevo Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifacial; heterojunction; high efficiency

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MIS DEVICES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SILICON WAFERS;

BIFACIAL; BIFACIAL SOLAR CELLS; COPPER ELECTROCHEMICAL PLATING; CZOCHRALSKI SILICON WAFERS; KEY PROCESS AREAS; METAL-INSULATOR-SEMICONDUCTORS; PATTERNING PROCESS; STANDARD TEST CONDITION (STC);

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84919922878     PISSN: 21563381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2014.2360565     Document Type: Article

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