Photovoltaic devices with electroplated metal grids

One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a photovoltaic structure and a front-side metal grid (300) situated above the photovoltaic structure. The front-side metal grid also includes one or more electroplated metal layers. The front- side metal grid incl...

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Main Authors FU, JIANMING, BEITEL, CHRISTOPHER J, XU, ZHENG, HENG, JIUNN BENJAMIN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 30.06.2016
Subjects
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
ELECTRICITY
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
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Summary:One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a photovoltaic structure and a front-side metal grid (300) situated above the photovoltaic structure. The front-side metal grid also includes one or more electroplated metal layers. The front- side metal grid includes one or more finger lines (302, 304), and each end of a respective finger line is coupled to a corresponding end of an adjacent finger line via an additional metal line (306, 308, 314, 316, 318, 320), thus ensuring that the respective finger line has no open end.
Bibliography:Application Number: AU20130326971