Thin-film solar cell module

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1473-8325
• DOI: 10.1016/s1473-8325(03)00426-7

✦ Synopsis

100 × 100 mm 2 (Bayer) and 103 × 103 mm 2 (Eurosolare). In the pairs study, pairs of neighboring wafers of the original ingot were processed into solar cells. One wafer received a GBOF grid, the other the same grid rotated by 90°, with little coverage of grain boundaries. In the triplets study the third wafer of each triplet was equipped with a standard H-pattern of the same shading as the GBOF grid.

In the pairs study, the researchers found that under standard conditions there is an 89% chance that the GBOF grid increases power output over cells with an identical -but rotated by 90° -grid, the most probable increase being 2.6%. The triplets study shows that there is an 87% chance that the GBOF grid increases power output over cells with the standard Hpattern, the most probable increase being 2.5%.