{"title":"High efficiency prismatic cover silicon concentrator solar cells","authors":"J. Zhao, A. Wang, A. Blakers, M. Green","doi":"10.1109/PVSC.1988.105758","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Improvements in large area, bifacially contacted silicon concentrator solar cells are reported. By combining prismatic covers which steer incoming light away from top contacts with improved low-resistivity cell processing, efficiencies above 25% were achieved for 1.6 cm/sup 2/ cells for concentration levels up to 200 suns. Several hundred cells of this type have been supplied to Sandia National Laboratories for incorporation into the next generation of high-performance silicon concentrator modules, which are expected to reach a module efficiency of 20%.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":10562,"journal":{"name":"Conference Record of the Twentieth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference","volume":"52 1","pages":"529-531 vol.1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"16","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Record of the Twentieth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.1988.105758","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Improvements in large area, bifacially contacted silicon concentrator solar cells are reported. By combining prismatic covers which steer incoming light away from top contacts with improved low-resistivity cell processing, efficiencies above 25% were achieved for 1.6 cm/sup 2/ cells for concentration levels up to 200 suns. Several hundred cells of this type have been supplied to Sandia National Laboratories for incorporation into the next generation of high-performance silicon concentrator modules, which are expected to reach a module efficiency of 20%.<>