Invention Application
- Patent Title: LIGHT CAPTURE WITH PATTERNED SOLAR CELL BUS WIRES
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Application No.: PCT/US2006/043877Application Date: 2006-11-10
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Publication No.: WO2007067304A3Publication Date: 2007-06-14
- Inventor: SACHS, Emanuel, M.
- Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY , SACHS, Emanuel, M.
- Applicant Address: 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room NE 25-230 Cambridge, MA 02139 US
- Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,SACHS, Emanuel, M.
- Current Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,SACHS, Emanuel, M.
- Current Assignee Address: 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room NE 25-230 Cambridge, MA 02139 US
- Agency: WEISSBURG, Steven, J.
- Priority: US60/742,486 20051205; US11/588,183 20061026
- Main IPC: H01L31/04
- IPC: H01L31/04
Abstract:
Crystalline silicon PV modules typically use tinned flat copper wire to increase the conductivity of a bus bar metallization and to interconnect to adjacent cells. Such a flat bus wire may be patterned with shallow v-shaped grooves using metal forming techniques, such as rolling, stamping and drawing. The grooves are designed so that incident light is reflected up toward the glass superstrate of t module at an internal interface angle that is large enough (typically greater than about 40°) so that the light undergoes total internal reflection at the glass-air interface and is reflected onto the solar cell. Grooves can be lengthwise along the conductor, or at an angle, angles. Rather than grooves, inclined faces can form pyramids, or other shapes.
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