Energy yield measurement of an elevated PV system on a white flat roof and a performance comparison of monofacial and bifacial modules

W Mühleisen, J Loeschnig, M Feichtner, AR Burgers… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Bifacial solar panels installed on flat rooftop of industrial buildings are an effective way to
boost the yield. The albedo of the flat roof determines to great extent the bifacial gain …

Passivated Emitter and Rear Totally Diffused: PERT Solar Cell-An Overview

AU Rehman, M Nadeem, M Usman - Silicon, 2023 - Springer
An overview of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Totally Diffused (PERT) solar cell is
presented, which is a member of Passivated Emitter and Rear Contact (PERC) family. Due …

Enabling savings in silver consumption and poly-Si thickness by integration of plated Ni/Cu/Ag contacts for bifacial TOPCon solar cells

S Kluska, R Haberstoh, B Grübel, G Cimiotti… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Plated Ni/Cu/Ag contacts offer the possibility to significantly reduce silver
consumption for tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cells. This work …

Challenges facing copper‐plated metallisation for silicon photovoltaics: Insights from integrated circuit technology development

A Lennon, J Colwell, KP Rodbell - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Copper‐plated interconnects were widely adopted for volume manufacture of integrated
circuits after more than a decade of intensive research to demonstrate that use of Cu would …

High-efficiency n-type silicon PERT bifacial solar cells with selective emitters and poly-Si based passivating contacts

D Ding, G Lu, Z Li, Y Zhang, W Shen - Solar Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Bifacial crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells have currently attracted much attention due to the
front high-efficiency and additional gain of power generation from the back side. Here, we …

Controllable Simultaneous Bifacial Cu‐Plating for High‐Efficiency Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

C Han, G Yang, P Procel, D O'Connor, Y Zhao… - Solar …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bifacial (BF) copper‐plated crystalline silicon solar cell is an attractive topic to concurrently
reduce silver consumption and maintain good device performance. However, it is still …

Direct contact electroplating sequence without initial seed layer for bifacial TOPCon solar cell metallization

B Grübel, G Cimiotti, C Schmiga, V Arya… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The metallization of bifacial tunneling oxide and passivating contacts (TOPCon) solar cells
without initial metal seed layer by electroplating of Ni/Cu/Ag is demonstrated. The presented …

Direct contact plating-Inline plating solution for ZEBRA IBC by local contacting

K Gensowski, G Cimiotti, J Eckert, V Arya… - AIP Conference …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
An inline plating solution, in which electrolyte and contact system are arranged on the same
side, is presented in this work. This concept allows plating onto cell concepts that do not …

Impact of selective BSF on performance of bifacial nPERT cells with Ni/Ag co-plated contacts

L Tous, R Russell, E Cornagliotti… - 7th Workshop on …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
In this work, we evaluate the impact of implementing a selective back surface field (BSF) on
the performance of bifacial n-type Passivated Emitter and Rear Totally diffused (PERT) cells …

[BOOK][B] Development of plating process sequences for high efficiency bifacial c-Si solar cells

B Grübel - 2023 - publica.fraunhofer.de
The metallization of tunnel oxide and passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cells requires low
contact resistances while avoiding an increased contact recombination. Laser ablation and …