EP2691990A4 - Active backplane for thin silicon solar cells - Google Patents

Active backplane for thin silicon solar cells

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Publication number
EP2691990A4
EP2691990A4 EP12765891.2A EP12765891A EP2691990A4 EP 2691990 A4 EP2691990 A4 EP 2691990A4 EP 12765891 A EP12765891 A EP 12765891A EP 2691990 A4 EP2691990 A4 EP 2691990A4
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Prior art keywords
solar cells
silicon solar
thin silicon
active backplane
backplane
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German (de)
French (fr)
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EP2691990A2 (en
Inventor
Mehrdad M Moslehi
Karl-Josef Kramer
Sean Seutter
Pawan Kapur
Thom Stalcup
David Xuan-Qi Wang
George D Kamian
Kamran Manteghi
Yen-Sheng Su
Pranav Anbalagan
Virendra V Rana
Anthony Calcaterra
Gerry Olsen
Wojciech Worwag
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Beamreach Solexel Assets Inc
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Solexel Inc
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    • H01L31/022425—Electrodes for devices characterised by at least one potential jump barrier or surface barrier for solar cells
    • H01L31/022441—Electrode arrangements specially adapted for back-contact solar cells
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    • H01L31/042—PV modules or arrays of single PV cells
    • H01L31/05—Electrical interconnection means between PV cells inside the PV module, e.g. series connection of PV cells
    • H01L31/0504—Electrical interconnection means between PV cells inside the PV module, e.g. series connection of PV cells specially adapted for series or parallel connection of solar cells in a module
    • H01L31/0516—Electrical interconnection means between PV cells inside the PV module, e.g. series connection of PV cells specially adapted for series or parallel connection of solar cells in a module specially adapted for interconnection of back-contact solar cells
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    • H01L31/068—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof adapted as photovoltaic [PV] conversion devices characterised by at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier the potential barriers being only of the PN homojunction type, e.g. bulk silicon PN homojunction solar cells or thin film polycrystalline silicon PN homojunction solar cells
    • H01L31/0682—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof adapted as photovoltaic [PV] conversion devices characterised by at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier the potential barriers being only of the PN homojunction type, e.g. bulk silicon PN homojunction solar cells or thin film polycrystalline silicon PN homojunction solar cells back-junction, i.e. rearside emitter, solar cells, e.g. interdigitated base-emitter regions back-junction cells
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    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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EP12765891.2A 2011-03-28 2012-03-28 Active backplane for thin silicon solar cells Withdrawn EP2691990A4 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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US201161468548P 2011-03-28 2011-03-28
PCT/US2012/031043 WO2012135395A2 (en) 2011-03-28 2012-03-28 Active backplane for thin silicon solar cells

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EP2691990A2 EP2691990A2 (en) 2014-02-05
EP2691990A4 true EP2691990A4 (en) 2014-09-03

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