Aluminum Evaporation and Etching for the Front-Side Metallization of Solar Cells
- verfasst von
- Stefan Eidelloth, Frank Heinemeyer, Daniel Münster, Rolf Brendel
- Abstract
In this paper, we report and discuss several strategies to produce solar cell front contacts by full-area metallization and etching (FAME). Our chemically structured contacts consume less expensive silver than screen-printed contacts. As a proof of principle for the FAME approach, we present a 148.6-cm 2-sized silicon solar cell that has about 100-μm-wide front-side fingers. These fingers consist of a 15-μm-thick evaporated aluminum layer, supplying the electrical conductance, and a sputtered capping stack (200 nm Ni:V plus 20 nm Ag), providing solderability. The entire metal stack is first deposited on the full area of the solar cells, then locally protected by a wax pattern, and subsequently etched with commercial Ni:V etch and NaOH. The efficiency of the best solar cell is 19.3%, the fill factor is 78%, the open-circuit voltage is 666 mV, and the short-circuit current density is 37.1 mA/cm2.
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Abt. Solarenergie
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH (ISFH)
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
- Band
- 3
- Seiten
- 702-708
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 7
- ISSN
- 2156-3381
- Publikationsdatum
- 30.01.2013
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Elektronische, optische und magnetische Materialien, Physik der kondensierten Materie, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik
- Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
- SDG 7 – Erschwingliche und saubere Energie
- Elektronische Version(en)
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https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2013.2239361 (Zugang:
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