Solar Cell Manufacturing

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With solar cells on the basis of ultrapure silicon, sunlight can be direetly converted into direct current electricity utilizing the photovoltaic effect. Silicon wafers from single crystal or cheaper directionally crystallized polycrystalline ultrapure silicon are utilized for solar cell manufacture. Solar cell electricity production efficiencies up to 18% are attained with single crystal material and up to 16% with polycrystalline material. 

I have listed solar cell suppliers in the resources section, but you can also call major solar cell manufacturers. Request their prices for cosmetically flawed and off spec cells, and find out what their minimum order is. Popular internet auction sites can also be a possible source for cells, although I recommend these with caution. Take your time, shop around, compare prices, and consider customer service. 

Solar cell manufacturers use an array of lights that closely mimic solar output to test cells. This gives excellent results, but is expensive and not really necessary. 

Figure 13.17 (a) Schematic illustration of an inverted T102/P3HT hybrid solar cell manufactured by Kuo et al. using an AAO template forthe formation of parallel aligned... 

Lipinski M, Bastide S, Panek P, Levy-Clement C (2003) Porous silicon antireflection coating by electrochemical and chemical etching for silicon solar cell manufacturing. Phys Status Solidi A-... 

Figure 10.149 Determination of fluoride, nitrate, sulfate, and orthosilicate in an acid texturization bath used in solar cell manufacturing. Separator column Metrosep A Supp 15 column dimensions 250 mm x 4 mm i.d. column temperature 45 °C eluent carbonate/ bicarbonate mixture flow rate 0.7mL/min detection (a) suppressed conductivity and (b) UV/Vis detection at 410 nm after postcolumn...

Murias et al. (2012) described using the DRIE etching process for the formation of black silicon (pyramid-like structures in this case) using an SF6/O2/CH4 gas mixture. The authors reported that the reflectance of silicon was reduced from 30% to 1%, and suggested that this technique be used in low-cost solar cell manufacture. 

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