A SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLY, AN ASSEMBLY PROCESS, AND AN ASSEMBLY APPARATUS

• Main Authors: EVERETT, VERNIE, ALLAN, BLAKERS, ANDREW, WILLIAM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 21.08.2008
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES; PHYSICS; REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGYGENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; TESTING

A substrate assembly (100) for a photovoltaic device, the assembly including an array of elongate semiconductor substrates (101), each of the elongate substrates (101) having opposite faces bounded by longitudinal edges, the elongate substrates being electrically interconnected and maintained in a longitudinally parallel arrangement by an electrically conductive material (102) disposed between the opposing longitudinal edges of adjacent ones of said elongate substrates (101) such that the opposite faces of each elongate substrate remain substantially entirely exposed. La présente invention concerne un assemblage de substrats (100) pour un dispositif photovoltaïque, l'assemblage comprenant une matrice de substrats semi-conducteurs étirés (101), chacun des substrats étirés (101) comportant des faces opposées reliées par leurs bords longitudinaux, les substrats étirés étant interconnectés électriquement et maintenus en un arrangement longitudinalement parallèle par un matériau électriquement conducteur (102) disposé entre les bords opposés longitudinaux des substrats adjacents parmi lesdits substrats étirés (101) de telle sorte que les faces opposées de chaque substrat étiré demeurent sensiblement entièrement exposées.