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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Rec Solar Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Richard Hamilton Sewell, Los Altos, CA (US);
Andreas Bentzen, Oslo, NO;
Lawrence Frederick Schloss, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Young Seen Lee, Newark, CA (US);
Hiroaki Hayashigatani, San Mateo, CA (US);
Toshio Itoh, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Alan Francis Lyon, Berkeley, CA (US);
Roger Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nemia Grubisich, San Jose, CA (US);
REC SOLAR PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
The present invention relates to cost effective production methods of high efficiency silicon based back-contacted back-junction solar panels and solar panels thereof having a multiplicity of alternating rectangular emitter- and base regions on the back-side of each cell, each with rectangular metallic electric finger conductor above and running in parallel with the corresponding emitter- and base region, a first insulation layer in-between the wafer and finger conductors, and a second insulation layer in between the finger conductors and cell interconnections.