Title :
Fine texture for front surface fine lines with screen printing
Author :
Aoki, Masaki ; Sumita, I. ; Tachibana, Takeshi ; Kawata, Yoshimasa ; Sato, Hikaru ; Kumagai, Y. ; Ohshita, Yoshio
Author_Institution :
Toyota Technol. Inst., Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
The fine lines are realized by decreasing the texture size. When the texture size is 10 μm, the line width becomes wider due to the bleeding of the silver paste during the screen printing process. As decreasing the texture size, the jaggy area decreases and the line width becomes narrower. When the texture size is 1μm, the line width becomes almost same as the mask one. The open circuit voltage increases as the texture size becomes smaller. The decrease in the metal area causes the decrease of the recombination at the interface between the metal and semiconductor.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; printing; silicon; silver alloys; solar cells; surface texture; Si; crystalline silicon solar cells; fine texture; front surface fine lines; jaggy area; mask; screen printing process; silver paste; size 1 mum; size 10 mum; texture size; Conductivity; Europe; Fingers; Indexes; Metals; Photovoltaic cells; Surface treatment; fine line; fine texture; screen print; silver paste crystalline silicon solar cells;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2014 IEEE 40th
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2014.6925425