In addition, the change in microcrack morphology caused by higher wire speed and feed speed, the risk of silicon wafer fracture was further increased. In short, the rapid development of the solar-PV industry has made the problem of silicon wafer fracture increasingly prominent.
The reason is that the tension force of the finer saw wire is smaller, which causes the change of the motion state of the saw wire during the sawing process, and then results in a large difference in surface damage of the silicon wafer and a wide distribution of fracture strength .
That is, the thermal cycling and/or mechanical loading is causing micro-cracks to open up at the intersection of the fingers and busbars. It is very difficult to make a direct observation of the finger–busbar interface in a silicon wafer based PV module.
The other type of dark region is ascribed to disconnected fingers at the finger–busbar intersection. We have shown that similarly shaped dark regions in the EL images of poorly soldered silicon wafer solar cells are caused by micro-cracks in the tin at the finger–busbar intersection.
According to linear elastic fracture mechanics, the local stress at the crack tip will increase sharply when the crack is subjected to external load. The appearance of microcracks on the surface of silicon wafers leads to a significant decrease in fracture strength, and the depth of subsurface cracks has a direct effect on the fracture strength.
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