TY - GEN
T1 - Corrugation Architecture Enabled Ultra-Flexible Mono-Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells via Plasma Etching and Laser Ablation
AU - Bahabry, Rabab R.
AU - Sepulveda, Adrian C.
AU - Kutbee, Arwa T.
AU - Shaikh, Sohail F.
AU - Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
PY - 2018/12/8
Y1 - 2018/12/8
N2 - Extreme mechanical flexibility is highly desirable for the new generation of Mono-Crystalline Silicon solar cells while maintaining the high power conversion efficiency. Here, we show a novel corrugation architecture, which transforms rigid interdigitated back contact 5 ×5 inch c-Si solar wafers into an ultra-flexible (140 m bending radius) version while retaining its original efficiency of 17%. We also investigated using both fluorine-based plasma and Ytterbium fiber laser for forming the corrugation architecture.
AB - Extreme mechanical flexibility is highly desirable for the new generation of Mono-Crystalline Silicon solar cells while maintaining the high power conversion efficiency. Here, we show a novel corrugation architecture, which transforms rigid interdigitated back contact 5 ×5 inch c-Si solar wafers into an ultra-flexible (140 m bending radius) version while retaining its original efficiency of 17%. We also investigated using both fluorine-based plasma and Ytterbium fiber laser for forming the corrugation architecture.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/631266
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8547699
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059904168&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547699
DO - 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8547699
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781538685297
SP - 289
EP - 292
BT - 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ER -