Ribbon Growth on Substrate and Molded Wafer-Two Low Cost Silicon Ribbon Materials for PV

摘要

This paper focuses on two very promising silicon ribbon materials currently produced for research: ribbon growth on substrate (RGS) by ECN solar energy and molded wafer (MW) by GE Energy. Both materials are investigated in terms of solar cell processing and characterisation. First cell results of large area 10times10 cm² RGS cells are presented as well as results from 5times5 cm² cells processed from 8times12 cm² RGS and 12.5times12.5 cm² MW wafers