Review on screen printed metallization on p-type silicon

Riegel, Stefanie; Mutter, Florian; Lauermann, Thomas; Terheiden, Barbara; Hahn, Giso

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2012.05.003

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“…In the past, a lot of research has been carried out to understand the contact formation process of Ag pastes [9]- [12]. However, up to now, very few investigations have been carried out to understand contact formation of Al containing Ag screen-printing pastes [4], [13].…”

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Formation of Ag/Al Screen-Printing Contacts on B Emitters

Fritz

König

Riegel

et al. 2015

IEEE J. Photovoltaics

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Formation of Ag/Al Screen-Printing Contacts on B Emitters

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König

Riegel

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IEEE J. Photovoltaics

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“…Introducing some Al in the Ag paste was shown in the past to be an effective way of reducing contact resistance [11]. At the workshop, great progress was reported in understanding the formation of such contacts.…”

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Summary of the 5th Workshop on Metallization for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Beaucarne¹,

Schubert

Hoornstra

2015

Energy Procedia

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The 5 th Metallization Workshop took place in Constance, Germany on 20 and 21 October 2014 and provided an overview of research and development in the field of solar cell metallization. Enhanced understanding of contact structure and formation was obtained thanks to new characterization techniques. Great progress in metallization technologies was also reported. Screen printing technology is continuing its trajectory of continuous improvement, notably with fine-line screen printing (linewidth < 50 μm) becoming a reality. Ni/Cu plating technology is also progressing fast, with many of the technical barriers to adoption being successfully removed. Finally, the workshop also highlighted the move towards a module-centric design of solar cell metallization, targeting high performance and low cost at module level.

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“…So formation of proper contact is crucial to reduce the series resistance. There are several techniques to form metal contact like thick and thin metallization technique (Riegel et al 2012), stencil printing technique (Hoornstra et al 2000), pad printing technique (Huljic et al 2002), ink-jet printing technique (Ghannam et al 1998), laser transfer of metal micro-droplets (Zenou et al 2015) and nickel plating technique (Rauer et al 2013). Screen printing technique is one of the low cost industrial established techniques to form contact of solar cell which was first proposed by (Ralph 1975).…”

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Improvement of front side contact and quantum efficiency of c-Si solar cell through light induced plating

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Overall series resistance of the contact increases due to unwanted pores created during the time of contact formation in solar cell. Light induced plating is an industrial established process which is used to reduce the series resistance and to improve the contact resistance resulting in increase of fill factor of solar cell through modification of front side contact. In this paper a theoretical modeling is done to show how distributed pores affect the series resistance and solar cell performance. Here we explored several parameters like: series resistance, shunt resistance, fill factor, short circuit current, and external quantum efficiency. Through our experimental setup it is found that the short circuit current improves significantly and also it is observed that during the time of experiment due to unintentional deposition of silver nanoparticles, external quantum efficiency improved by 5.249 % and a reduction of reflectance by 2.03 %. An overall enhancement of solar cell efficiency of 1.65 % is obtained during the process.

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Review on screen printed metallization on p-type silicon

Cited by 45 publications

References 35 publications

Formation of Ag/Al Screen-Printing Contacts on B Emitters

Formation of Ag/Al Screen-Printing Contacts on B Emitters

Summary of the 5th Workshop on Metallization for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Improvement of front side contact and quantum efficiency of c-Si solar cell through light induced plating

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