Printing technologies for silicon solar cell metallization: A comprehensive review

S Tepner, A Lorenz - Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a comprehensive overview on printing technologies for metallization of
solar cells. Throughout the last 30 years, flatbed screen printing has established itself as the …

Modelling of hydrogen transport in silicon solar cell structures under equilibrium conditions

P Hamer, B Hallam, RS Bonilla, PP Altermatt… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a model for the introduction and redistribution of hydrogen in silicon
solar cells at temperatures between 300 and 700 C based on a second order backwards …

Study on the sintering and contact formation process of silver front side metallization pastes for crystalline silicon solar cells

J Qin, W Zhang, S Bai, Z Liu - Applied Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In the paper, sintering process and contact formation process of PTO glass containing
pastes were studied by interrupting the firings at different temperatures. Microstructures of …

Influence of random pyramid surface texture on silver screen-printed contact formation for monocrystalline silicon wafer solar cells

A Khanna, PK Basu, A Filipovic, V Shanmugam… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Most industrial monocrystalline silicon wafer (mono-Si) solar cells are metallised by screen
printing. Silver (Ag) pastes are commonly used to form electrodes to phosphorus-doped n+ …

Determination of metal contact recombination parameters for silicon wafer solar cells by photoluminescence imaging

V Shanmugam, T Mueller, AG Aberle, J Wong - Solar Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In order to reliably extract metal–silicon interface recombination parameters to aid
optimization of silicon wafer solar cell designs, a test metallization pattern with regions of …

Effect of Pb–Te–O glasses on Ag thick-film contact in crystalline silicon solar cells

J Qin, W Zhang, S Bai, Z Liu - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2016 - Elsevier
In the paper, the influences of Pb–Te–O (PTO) glasses with different Pb/Te ratios on silver
screen-printed contact formation in crystalline silicon solar cells were investigated. Thermal …

Insights into metastability of photovoltaic materials at the mesoscale through massive I–V analytics

TJ Peshek, JS Fada, Y Hu, Y Xu, MA Elsaeiti… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The authors demonstrate the feasibility of quantifying cell-level performance heterogeneity
from module-level I–V curves by determining conditions of bypass diode turn-on. Analysis of …

Impact of the phosphorus emitter doping profile on metal contact recombination of silicon wafer solar cells

V Shanmugam, A Khanna, PK Basu, AG Aberle… - Solar energy materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
Metallisation of phosphorus-doped silicon (Si) surfaces using screen-printed silver (Ag)
pastes is a well-established process and also a key process in the production of Si wafer …

Electrochemical nature of contact firing reactions for screen‐printed silicon solar cells: Origin of “gray finger” phenomenon

HS Kim, SB Cho, H Kim, D Kim… - Progress in …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fire‐through Ag thick‐film metallization of crystalline Si (c‐Si) solar cells often yields
macroscopically non‐uniform contact quality over the cell area, degrading the cell …

A low cost additive-free acid texturing process for large area commercial diamond-wire-sawn multicrystalline silicon solar cells

KP Sreejith, AK Sharma, S Behera, A Kottantharayil… - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Diamond-wire-sawing (DWS) technique allows slicing of silicon ingots to produce
wafers at cheaper price due to its reduced kerf-loss and increased cutting rate. However …