Self-annealing behavior and rapid thermal processing of light induced plated copper fingers on silicon solar cells

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn 2016-November, Issue , 2016, Pages 1980-1983

  Song, Ning ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Hsiao, Pei Chieh ^a   Wang, Xi ^a   Li, Zhongtian ^a   Colwell, Jack ^a   Lennon, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

LIP Cu fingers; RTP annealing; self annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COPPER PLATING; GRAIN GROWTH; HEAT TREATMENT; METALLIZING; PLATING; RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING; SOLAR CELLS;

FAST ANNEALING; GRAIN TEXTURES; LIGHT-INDUCED; LIGHT-INDUCED PLATINGS; LIP CU FINGERS; SCREEN-PRINTED; SELF-ANNEALING;

SILICON SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85003443610     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2016.7749974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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