Print Email Facebook Twitter Optimized back Reflectors for Rear Diffused c-Si Solar Cells Title Optimized back Reflectors for Rear Diffused c-Si Solar Cells Author Ingenito, A. Ortiz Lizcano, J.C. Luxembourg, S.L. Santbergen, R. Weeber, A. Isabella, O. Zeman, M. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Electrical Sustainable Energy Date 2014-09-19 Abstract At present, research in c-Si solar cells is focused on increasing the efficiency while reducing the amount of used materials. Since silicon wafer and metal contribute up to 50% to the cost of a module, it is crucial to reduce the amount of these materials to fabricate cost-effective modules. In particular, for reducing the consumption of metal, the rear back contact can be patterned leaving ample metal-free regions that are well passivated. This is the concept of open-rear-metallization, typically found in solar cell concepts such as n-Pasha. In this contribution we compare a Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR), white paint and white foil as cost-effective back reflectors for rear diffused c-Si solar cells. Subject back reflectordistributed Bragg reflectorwhite paintabsorption To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:167a5735-0105-4254-810f-cf6d4a0ce713 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.08.085 Publisher Elsevier ISSN 1876-6102 Source Energy Procedia, 55, 2014; SiliconPV 2014: 4th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 ElsevierThis is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license Files PDF Ingenito_2014.pdf 959.01 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:167a5735-0105-4254-810f-cf6d4a0ce713/datastream/OBJ/view