ACE Designs: the beauty of rear contact solar cells

Author

Schönecker, A. ; Eikelboom, D. ; Manshanden, P. ; Goris, M. ; Wyers, P. ; Roberts, S. ; Bruton, T. ; Jooss, W. ; Faika, K. ; Kress, A. ; Kühn, R. ; Neu, W. ; Knauss, H. ; Fath, P. ; Ferrazza, F. ; Nacci, R.V. ; Van Kerschaver, E. ; De Wolf, S. ; Szlufcik,

Author_Institution

Energy Res. Centre of the Netherlands, Petten, Netherlands

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

109

Abstract

Presents an outline of the work done in the EC co-funded project ACE Designs. The objective of this project was to develop rear contact solar cell designs and to demonstrate their applicability as an alternative crystalline silicon technology for industrial module production. An overview of the results is given with links to the most relevant, publications for further details. The most important result of this project was that rear contact solar cells are a feasible, attractive and cost effective alternative to the well-known front contacted solar cell.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; modules; reviews; semiconductor device manufacture; semiconductor device metallisation; silicon; solar cells; ACE Designs; EC co-funded project; Si; cost effective alternative; crystalline silicon rear contacted solar cells; industrial module production; overview; Costs; Crystallization; Manufacturing industries; Metallization; Microelectronics; Photovoltaic cells; Physics; Production; Silicon; Solar energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE

ISSN

1060-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7471-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190467

Filename

1190467