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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2014
Gtat Corporation, Merrimack, NH (US);
Robert Brainard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gopal Prabhu, San Jose, CA (US);
David Tanner, San Jose, CA (US);
Dong Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
GTAT Corporation, Merrimack, NH (US);
Abstract
A photovoltaic cell and method of forming the cell includes providing an electroformed metallic article having a plurality of electroformed elements that form a free-standing, unitary piece. The metallic article has gridlines that are spaced apart at a pitch P. A semiconductor substrate has a top surface with a plurality of silver, where at least one of the silver patterns comprises pattern segments spaced apart at a pitch P. The pattern segments have a length Ldefined by the equation L=P−k*P/2, k being a value from 1.0 to 1.4. The metallic article is coupled to the semiconductor substrate, in which a first electroformed element in the plurality of electroformed elements is coupled to a first silver pattern in the plurality of silver patterns.