Development of light-trapped, interconnected, Silicon-Film™ modules

被引：3

作者：

Ford, DH ^{[1
]}

Rand, JA ^{[1
]}

Barnett, AM ^{[1
]}

DelleDonne, EJ ^{[1
]}

Ingram, AE ^{[1
]}

Hall, RB ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Astropower Inc, Newark, DE 19716 USA

来源：

CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE TWENTY SIXTH IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE - 1997 | 1997年

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D O I：

10.1109/PVSC.1997.654168

中图分类号：

TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];

学科分类号：

0807 ; 0820 ;

摘要：

AstroPower is employing Silicon-Film(TM) technology toward the development of an advanced thin-silicon-based, photovoltaic module product. This module combines the design and process features of advanced thin-silicon solar cells, is light trapped, and integrated in a low-cost monolithic interconnected array. This advanced product includes the following features: silicon layer grown on a low-cost substrate, a nominally 50-micron thick silicon layer with minority carrier diffusion lengths exceeding 100 microns, light trapping due to back-surface reflection, back surface passivation. The thin silicon layer achieves high solar cell performance and can lead to a module conversion efficiency as high as 19%. These performance design features, combined with low-cost manufacturing using relatively low-cost capital equipment, continuous processing and a low-cost substrate, will lead to high performance, low cost photovoltaic panels.

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页码：631 / 634

页数：4