Lg Electronics Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jinah Kim

Ilhyoung Jung

Jeongbeom Nam

Indo Chung

Seunghwan Shim

Juhong Yang

Sungjin Kim

Hyungjin Kwon

Jonghwan Kim

Seongeun Lee

Minho Choi

Juhwan Yun

Younghyun Lee

Dohwan Yang

Taehee Shin

Youngseong Kim

Jaewon Chang

Hyunjung Park

Kisu Kim

Giwon Lee

Jiyun Lee

Hyongsoo Kim

Hwanyeon Kim

Siwoo Kim

Seunghwan Sim

Hyoungjin Kwon

Eunsuk Choi

Yeram Kim

Seonbaek Lee

A semiconductor device may include an active pattern, a capacitor contact structure electrically connected to the active pattern, and a capacitor structure electrically connected to the capacitor contact structure. The capacitor structure may include a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode that are adjacent to each other, a supporter supporting the first and second lower electrodes, a capacitor insulating layer covering the first and second lower electrodes, and an upper electrode on the capacitor insulating layer. The supporter may include a first supporter curved sidewall connected to the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode, and the upper electrode may include an intervening electrode portion enclosed by the supporter. The first supporter curved sidewall may be convex toward the intervening electrode portion.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A method for manufacturing a solar cell includes applying an electrode paste on a semiconductor substrate, the electrode paste including fine metal particles, a binder, and a solvent; and sintering the electrode paste using light to form an electrode, the sintering of the electrode paste to form the electrode including evaporating the solvent included in the electrode paste; and irradiating the light, after the evaporating of the solvent, to evaporate the binder included in the electrode paste and sinter the fine metal particles to form the electrode, the evaporating of the solvent and the irradiating of the light being performed at different temperatures, a temperature to evaporate the binder being higher than a temperature of the evaporating of the solvent, the solvent being evaporated at the temperature of about 80&#xb0; C. to 150&#xb0; C., and the binder being evaporated at the temperature of about 100&#xb0; C. to 500&#xb0; C.

Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same

Disclosed is a solar cell including a semiconductor substrate, a first conductive area disposed on one surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first conductive area being of a first conductive type, a second conductive area of a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type, a first electrode connected to the first conductive area, and a second electrode connected to the second conductive area. At least one of the first conductive area and the second conductive area is formed of a metal compound layer.

Solar cell

A solar cell is discussed, which includes a tunneling layer on one surface of a semiconductor substrate; a first conductive type region on the tunneling layer; a second conductive type region on the tunneling layer; a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode connected to the first conductive type region and the second electrode connected to the second conductive type region. The tunneling layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed to correspond to at least a part of the first and second conductive type regions and has a first thickness. At least a part of the second portion is disposed to correspond to a boundary portion between the first conductive type region and the second conductive type region. The second portion has a second thickness greater than the first thickness.

A solar cell and a method for manufacturing the solar cell are discussed. The method for manufacturing the solar cell includes applying an electrode paste on a semiconductor substrate and sintering the electrode paste using a light sintering device to form an electrode. The electrode paste includes fine metal particles, a binder, and a solvent. An amount of the fine metal particles is greater than a sum of an amount of the binder and an amount of the solvent, and the amount of the binder is greater than the amount of the solvent.

A solar cell and a solar cell module are disclosed. The solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate containing a crystalline silicon material, a first conductive region on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second conductive region positioned in a portion except the first conductive region from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate and having a conductive type opposite the first conductive region, a first electrode connected to the first conductive region, and a second electrode connected to the second conductive region. The back surface of the semiconductor substrate is divided into a first area extending in one direction at an edge of the entire back surface of the semiconductor substrate and a second area occupying a portion except the first area from the entire back surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Solar cell and solar cell module

A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, an emitter layer on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, the emitter layer having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, and electrodes including a first electrode electrically connected to the emitter layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate. The emitter layer includes a high-concentration doping portion adjacent to the first electrode, and a low-concentration doping portion in a region that does not include the high-concentration doping portion. The low-concentration doping portion has a higher resistance than the high-concentration doping portion. The high-concentration doping portion includes a first region having a first resistance, and a second region having a second resistance higher than the first resistance.

A solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells comprising a first solar cell and a second solar cell adjacent to each other; a conductive ribbon, wherein each of the plurality of solar cells comprises: a substrate; an emitter layer of positioned on the substrate; a plurality of finger electrodes formed in a first direction, each finger electrode being electrically connected to the emitter layer; and at least one first collector formed in a second direction crossing the first direction, the at least one first collector being electrically connected to the plurality of finger electrodes, wherein the conductive ribbon is attached to the at least one first collector in the second direction by a conductive adhesive, and wherein the conductive ribbon is attached on a collector region where the at least one first collector is formed and a deletion where the at least one first collector is not formed.

Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same, and solar cell module

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A solar cell can include a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter layer of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, and positioned on the substrate; a plurality of finger electrodes formed in a first direction, each finger electrode being electrically connected to the emitter layer; a plurality of first collector regions; a plurality of first electrodes positioned in a plurality of first collector regions and extending in the first direction from the plurality of finger electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes positioned in the plurality of first collector regions and formed in a perpendicular direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of third electrodes positioned in the plurality of first collector regions, connecting two neighboring first electrodes of the plurality of first electrodes and formed in the perpendicular direction; and a plurality of deletions positioned in the plurality of first collector regions. Furthermore, one of the plurality of second electrodes is positioned between a pair of the plurality of first electrodes.

A solar cell can include a substrate of a first conductive type; an emitter region of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type and which forms a p-n junction along with the substrate; an anti-reflection layer positioned on the emitter region; a front electrode part electrically connected to the emitter region; and a back electrode part electrically connected to the substrate, wherein the substrate including a first area formed of single crystal silicon and a second area formed of polycrystalline silicon, wherein a thickness of the anti-reflection layer positioned on the first area is less than a thickness of the anti-reflection layer positioned on the second area, wherein a roughness of an incident surface of the substrate in the first area is different from a roughness of the incident surface of the substrate in the second area, and wherein the emitter region is entirely formed on the incident surface of the substrate.

A solar cell includes a substrate, an emitter region positioned at a first surface of the substrate, a first electrode positioned on the first surface of the substrate, a back passivation layer positioned on a second surface opposite the first surface of the substrate, and a second electrode which is positioned on the back passivation layer and is electrically connected to the substrate through holes of the back passivation layer. The second electrode includes connection electrodes positioned inside the holes of the back passivation layer and a back electrode layer positioned on the connection electrodes and the back passivation layer. An adhesion enhanced layer is positioned between the back electrode layer and the back passivation layer and contains at least one of intrinsic amorphous silicon and intrinsic microcrystalline silicon.

A solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type, an emitter region of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type and which forms a p-n junction along with the substrate, an anti-reflection layer positioned on the emitter region, a front electrode part electrically connected to the emitter region, and a back electrode part electrically connected to the substrate. The substrate includes a first area formed of single crystal silicon and a second area formed of polycrystalline silicon. A thickness of the anti-reflection layer positioned in the first area is less than a thickness of the anti-reflection layer positioned in the second area.

A solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type, an emitter region, which is positioned at the substrate and is doped with impurities of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, a plurality of first electrodes, which are connected to the emitter region and extend parallel to one another to be spaced apart from one another, a plurality of semiconductor electrodes, which extend in a direction different from an extension direction of the plurality of first electrodes to be spaced apart from one another and have an impurity doping concentration higher than the emitter region, and a second electrode connected to the substrate. A distance between two adjacent semiconductor electrodes is about 0.02 cm to 0.2 cm, and a distance between two adjacent first electrodes is about 0.3 cm to 0.8 cm.

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Jinah Kim