Mercury: A back junction back contact front floating emitter cell with novel design for high efficiency and simplified processing

Energy Procedia

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 633-642

  Cesar, Ilkay ^a   Guillevin, Nicolas ^a   Burgers, Antonius R ^a   Mewe, Agnes A ^a   Koppes, Martien ^a   Anker, John ^a   Geerligs, L J ^a   Weeber, Arthur W ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Back surface field; Electrical shading; Front floating emitter; Ibc; Silicon; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922327634     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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