Progress in the HighVo- and POWER solar cell

Author

Fath, Peter ; Keller, S. ; Boueke, A. ; Kuhn, Ruediger ; Bucher, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Konstanz Univ.

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

335

Lastpage

338

Abstract

Two new solar cell concepts-the HighVo (high voltage) and the POWER (polycrystalline wafer engineering result) solar cell-have been developed at the University of Konstanz aiming to conquer new markets for photovoltaic energy conversion. The HighVo solar cell relies on monolithical integration of crystalline silicon single wafer based solar cells to be incorporated in mobile electronics and large area high voltage modules. The best screen printed HighVo cell (21 cm²) so far exhibits a voltage of 2.85 molts at MPPp and a conversion efficiency of 12.8%. The semitransparent POWER solar cell is well suitable for the fast growing market of building integrated PV and is currently in the stage of industrialization at the sunways AG. The best efficiency so far obtained on laboratory scale was 12.9% with a light transmittance of 16%

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; light transmission; silicon; solar cell arrays; solar cells; 12.8 percent; 12.9 percent; 2.85 V; HighVo solar cell; POWER solar cell; Si; University of Konstanz; building integrated PV; conversion efficiency; crystalline silicon single wafer based solar cells; large area high voltage modules; light transmittance; mobile electronics; monolithical integration; photovoltaic energy conversion; polycrystalline wafer engineering result solar cell; screen printed HighVo cell; semitransparent POWER solar cell; sunways AG; Consumer electronics; Crystallization; Energy conversion; Laboratories; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Power engineering and energy; Silicon; Solar power generation; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2000. Conference Record of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5772-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2000.915831

Filename

915831