Spatially resolved assessment of power losses due to bulk material quality and metallization problems

Author

Isenberg, J. ; van der Heide, A.S.H. ; Warta, W.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer-Inst. fur Solare Energiesysteme, Freiburg, Germany

fYear

2005

Firstpage

907

Lastpage

910

Abstract

The main advantage of illuminated lock-in thermography (ILIT) over standard (dark) lock-in thermography is the ability to measure at actual operation conditions of solar cells. Thus ILIT allows a quantitative and spatially resolved investigation of the sum of all power losses in a solar cell at actual operation conditions with one measurement. The quantitative influence of low bulk material quality on solar cell performance is investigated. Also the locations of high contact resistance of the frontside metallization and of high series resistance within the metallization were determined with ILIT. The results were compared with Corescan results for the same cells and a good correlation between the locations determined with both methods was found.

Keywords

contact resistance; infrared imaging; semiconductor device metallisation; solar cells; Corescan results; contact resistance; illuminated lock-in thermography; metallization; power losses; series resistance; solar cell; Cameras; Electrical resistance measurement; Energy resolution; Inorganic materials; Loss measurement; Measurement techniques; Photovoltaic cells; Pollution measurement; Power measurement; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8707-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2005.1488278

Filename

1488278