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                Recent developments on low-cost industrial processing of n-type silicon solar cells
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                Weeber, A.W.;  Burgers, A.R.;  Guillevin, N.;  Carr, A.J.;  Barton, P.C.;  Jingfeng, Xiong ;  Gaofei, Li ;  Weipeng, Song;  Haijiao, An;  Zhiyan, Hu ;  Venema, P.;  Vlooswijk, A.H.G.;  Geerligs, L.J.
 
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                Solar Energy
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                27-10-2010
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        Presented at: International Workshop on Science and Technology of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells (CSSC-4), Taipei, Taiwan, 27-29 oktober 2010.
        
        
    
    
        Abstract:
        We present the status of our process development of n-type silicon solar cells, and progress towards its industrial implementation. For cells with a so-called H-pattern front side metallization independently confirmed efficiencies for Cz wafers of 18.65% (239 cm2) have been obtained, and since then, cells have already shown further improvement to more than 19%. To our knowledge these are the highest stable efficiencies obtained with industrial processing on 6 inch n-type wafers. We present an update of our process development, including efficiency improvements, transfer to 6 inch size, and key features of the current bifacial cells with H-pattern metallization. Results are illustrated with data from Yingli PANDA pilot production.
    
    
        
        
    
    
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