Screen-printed solar cells typically use a simple homogeneous diffusion to form the emitter where the doping is the same beneath the metal contacts and between the fingers. To maintain low contact resistance, a high surface concentration of phosphorus is required below the screen-printed contact.
Sebastian Tepner and Andreas Lorenz contributed equally to this work. This paper presents a comprehensive overview on printing technologies for metallization of solar cells. Throughout the last 30 years, flatbed screen printing has established itself as the predominant metallization process for the mass production of silicon solar cells.
A successful application of this printing method for the metallization of heterojunction solar cells has been demonstrated. 369 First attempts to use rotary screen printing for the metallization of silicon solar cells date back to the late 1990s 362 but have not been pursued further.
The key advantage of screen-printing is the relative simplicity of the process. There are a variety of processes for manufacturing screen-printed solar cells. The production technique given in the animation below is one of the simplest techniques and has since been improved upon by many manufacturers and research laboratories.
A note on Finger Resistance Following the cofiring step, the resistance of the silver fingers can be assessed by probing the voltage drop along a silver metal finger as shown in Figure 1. In this test, the cell is placed under the solar simulator and contacted by test probes so as to short-circuit the cell.
In this test, the cell is placed under the solar simulator and contacted by test probes so as to short-circuit the cell. This causes the maximum photogenerated current to flow within the silver metal lines, thereby maximising the resistive losses in the silver fingers.
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