METHOD FOR PREPARING SOLAR CELL ELECTRODES, SOLAR CELL SUBSTRATES PREPARED THEREBY, AND SOLAR CELLS

摘要

The present invention provides a method for preparing electrodes for solar cells, substrates for the solar cells prepared using the same, and the solar cells. The invention forms conductive paste on substrates by a printing method and a wet metal plating method, and forms a non-porous cell structure by directly plating a crystallized metal layer on the substrate via etching without using excessive non-crystallized conductive paste or plating the porous conductive paste with metal. The invention also improves adhesion between the substrates and electrodes and reduces resistivity of the electrodes. In particular the invention improves the efficiency of the solar cells by forming an additional ohmic contact among the plated metal, crystallized metal layer and substrate via heat treatment. The method of the present invention: saves on the amount of expensive conductive paste used by allowing minimum printing to form only on the crystallized metal layer, solves pattern aligning problems, which decrease production and yield, by use of precise patterns through one-time offset printing, and enables high or low temperature sintering in a very short time in comparison to relatively thick electrode patterns, and reduces decreases in efficiency caused by light shielding of the electrodes.