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Titel:
Efficiency improvements by Metal Wrap Through technology for n-type Si solar cells and modules
 
Auteur(s):
Wenchao, Zhao; Jianming, Wang; Yanlong,  Shen; Ziqian, Wang; Yingle, Chen; Shuquan, Tian; Zhiliang, Wan; Bo, Yu; Gaofei, Li ; Zhiyan, Hu ; Jingfeng, Xiong ; Guillevin, N.; Heurtault, B.; Aken, B.B. van; Bennett, I.J.; Geerligs, L.J.; Weeber, A.W.; Bultman, J.H.
 
Gepubliceerd door: Publicatie datum:
ECN Zonne-energie 24-9-2012
 
ECN publicatienummer: Publicatie type:
ECN-M--12-057 Conferentiebijdrage
 
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Samenvatting:
N-type Metal Wrap Through (n-MWT) is presented as an industrially promising back-contact technology to reach high performance of silicon solar cells and modules. It can combine benefits from both n-type base and MWT metallization. In this paper, the efficiency improvements of commercial industrial n-type bifacial Si solar cells (239cm2) and modules (60 cells) by the integration of the MWT technique are described. For the cell, after the optimization of integration, over 0.3% absolute efficiency gain was achieved over the similar non-MWT technology, and Voc gain and Isc gain up to 0.9% and 3.5%, respectively. These gains are mainly attributed to reduced shading loss and surface recombination. Besides the front pattern optimization, a 0.1mO reduction of Rs in via part will induce further 0.06% absolute efficiency improvement. For the module part, a power output of n-MWT module up to 279W was achieved, corresponding to a module efficiency of about17.7%.


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