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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Solarcity Corporation, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Anand J. Reddy, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/18 (2006.01); H01L 31/0224 (2006.01); H01L 31/05 (2014.01); H01L 31/0443 (2014.01); H01L 31/049 (2014.01); H02S 20/25 (2014.01); H02S 50/10 (2014.01); B23P 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 31/022433 (2013.01); B23P 19/04 (2013.01); H01L 31/049 (2014.12); H01L 31/0443 (2014.12); H01L 31/0504 (2013.01); H01L 31/0516 (2013.01); H01L 31/188 (2013.01); H01L 31/1876 (2013.01); H02S 20/25 (2014.12); H02S 50/10 (2014.12); Y02B 10/12 (2013.01); Y02E 10/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides an electrode grid positioned at least on a first surface of a photovoltaic structure. The electrode grid can include a number of finger lines and an edge busbar positioned at an edge of the photovoltaic structure. The edge busbar can include one or more paste-alignment structures configured to facilitate confinement of conductive paste used for bonding the edge busbar to an opposite edge busbar of an adjacent photovoltaic structure.