Recent developments on low-cost industrial processing of n-type silicon solar cells
conference paper
We present the status of our process development of n-type silicon solar cells, and progress towards its industrial implementation. For cells with a so-called H-pattern front side metallization independently confirmed efficiencies for Cz wafers of 18.65% (239 cm2) have been obtained, and since then, cells have already shown further improvement to more than 19%. To our knowledge these are the highest stable efficiencies obtained with industrial processing on 6 inch n-type wafers. We present an update of our process development, including efficiency improvements, transfer to 6 inch size, and key features of the current bifacial cells with H-pattern metallization. Results are illustrated with data from Yingli PANDA pilot production.
TNO Identifier
821717
Publisher
ECN
Source title
International Workshop on Science and Technology of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells (CSSC-4), Taipei, Taiwan, 27-29 oktober 2010.
Collation
3 p.
Place of publication
Petten
Pages
3 p.
Files