Optimization of pulsed fiber laser scribing for CdTe and CIGS solar cells

Author

Selleri, Stefano ; Bosio, Alessio ; Cucinotta, Annamaria ; Sozzi, Michele ; Menossi, Daniele ; Hernandez, Yves ; Bertrand, Anthony ; Duterte, Charles

Author_Institution

Inf. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The FP7 EU funded ALPINE project is focused on the processing of new type of thin film CdTe and CIGS photovoltaic modules by means of pulsed fiber laser scribing. The latest results of scribing tests performed for different laser parameters for P1, P2 and P3 steps in both CdTe and CIGS solar cells are discussed showing examples for CdTe module processing.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; copper compounds; fibre lasers; gallium compounds; indium compounds; pulsed laser deposition; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; ternary semiconductors; CIGS photovoltaic modules; CIGS solar cells; CdTe; CdTe solar cells; CdTe thin film; CuInGaSe₂; FP7 EU funded ALPINE project; optimization; pulsed fiber laser scribing; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Materials; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; CIGS; CdTe; fibre laser; laser scribing; photovoltaics; thin film solar cells;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253725

Filename

6253725