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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Sunpower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Ratson Morad, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gilad Almogy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Itai Suez, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jean Hummel, San Carlos, CA (US);
Nathan Beckett, Oakland, CA (US);
Yafu Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dan Maydan, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John Gannon, Oakland, CA (US);
SunPower Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A high efficiency configuration for a solar cell module comprises solar cells arranged in a shingled manner to form super cells, which may be arranged to efficiently use the area of the solar module, reduce series resistance, and increase module efficiency. Each super cell comprises a plurality of rectangular or substantially rectangular silicon solar cells arranged in line with long sides of adjacent silicon solar cells overlapping and conductively bonded directly to each other to electrically connect the silicon solar cells in series. A super cell may comprise a hidden tap contact pad located on a back surface of a solar cell located at an intermediate position along the super cell. In some variations the overlapping sides of adjacent silicon soar cells in a super cell are flexibly bonded to each other, and a flexible electrical interconnect is rigidly bonded to one of the solar cells.