Great advances have been achieved in the development of silver pastes. The use of smaller
silver particles, higher silver content, and, thus, less glass frit allow modern silver pastes to …

In the large-scale production of solar cells, metallization is a very important process, which
directly affects the opening-circuit voltage, short-cut current, shunt resistance, and fill factor …

The shingled photovoltaic (PV) module is a high-power PV module technology that is
manufactured cells dividing and bonding with an electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) …

Four commercially available silver pastes for silicon solar cells front side metallization were
examined and compared. Both rheological and printing experiments were used to correlate …

An ink-jet method for fabrication of fine and smooth front side highly conductive silver lines
on crystalline Silicon substrate is described. The fabricated conductive silver lines on …

Good progress in the front silver metallization paste development has lead to significant
efficiency improvements for standard crystalline silicon solar cells in the past years. In order …

For screen-printed Ag-paste metallization, the growth of Ag crystallites into Si is essential for
the current conduction from the Si emitter to the silver finger. There are strong indications …

During the temperature spike of the contact cofiring step in a solar cell process, it has been
shown that the concentration of lifetime-killer dissolved metallic impurities increases, while …

This work presents a direct printing technology and an enabling tool for forming very fine
gridlines with high aspect ratios that improve the front side metallization of silicon solar cells …

In this dissertation, screen printed and fired thick film silver contacts for contacting
phosphorus-doped emitters of crystalline silicon solar cells are characterized and evaluated …