Approaching efficiencies above 25% with both sides-contacted silicon solar cells

2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hermle, Martin ^a   Feldmann, Frank ^a   Eisenlohr, Johannes ^a   Benick, Jan ^a   Richter, Armin ^a   Lee, Benjamin ^b   Stradins, Paul ^b   Rohatgi, Ajeet ^c   Glunz, Stefan W ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

HIGH CELL PERFORMANCE; LEVELIZED COST OF ELECTRICITIES; MARKET ENTRY; PRODUCTION COST; REAR CONTACTS; SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84961668061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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