Mercury: industrial IBC cell with front floating emitter for 20.9% and higher efficiency

A. Mewe; P. Spinelli; A. Burgers; G. Janssen; N. Guillevin; B.W.H. van de Loo; W.M.M. Kessels; A. Ylooswijk; B. Geerligs; I. Cesar

doi:10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356061

Mercury: industrial IBC cell with front floating emitter for 20.9% and higher efficiency

A. Mewe, P. Spinelli, A. Burgers, G. Janssen, N. Guillevin, B.W.H. van de Loo, W.M.M. Kessels, A. Ylooswijk, B. Geerligs, I. Cesar

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Abstract

In this paper break-through results on our 6? industrial Mercury cells are presented. We gained more than 1% absolute in efficiency by optimizing the processes and design of the cells, resulting in 20.9% cell efficiency. We used standard industrial equipment and the number of process steps similar to our commercial n-Pasha technology. The screen-printed IBC cells can be interconnected by our proven industrial foil-based interconnection scheme. Together with this result, we present a method to characterize and quantify the pn-junction recombination contribution to Voc and pseudo-FF losses in the cell. Finally, our roadmap to 23% Mercury cells is presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015, 14-19 June 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1-6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-7944-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356061
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2015
Event	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC 2015) - Hyatt Regency New Orleans , New Orleans, United States Duration: 14 Jun 2015 → 19 Jun 2015 Conference number: 42 https://www.ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC42/

Conference

Conference	42nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC 2015)
Abbreviated title	PVSC 2015
Country	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	14/06/15 → 19/06/15
Internet address	https://www.ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC42/

Keywords

IBC
junction recombination
photovoltaic cells
silicon

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Mewe, A., Spinelli, P., Burgers, A., Janssen, G., Guillevin, N., van de Loo, B. W. H., Kessels, W. M. M., Ylooswijk, A., Geerligs, B., & Cesar, I. (2015). Mercury: industrial IBC cell with front floating emitter for 20.9% and higher efficiency. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015, 14-19 June 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana (pp. 1-6). [7356061] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356061

Mewe, A. ; Spinelli, P. ; Burgers, A. ; Janssen, G. ; Guillevin, N. ; van de Loo, B.W.H. ; Kessels, W.M.M. ; Ylooswijk, A. ; Geerligs, B. ; Cesar, I. / Mercury : industrial IBC cell with front floating emitter for 20.9% and higher efficiency. 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015, 14-19 June 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana. Piscataway : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015. pp. 1-6

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2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015, 14-19 June 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana. Piscataway : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015. p. 1-6 7356061.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Mewe A, Spinelli P, Burgers A, Janssen G, Guillevin N, van de Loo BWH et al. Mercury: industrial IBC cell with front floating emitter for 20.9% and higher efficiency. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2015, 14-19 June 2015, New Orleans, Louisiana. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2015. p. 1-6. 7356061 https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356061