公开(公告)号：US12132129B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-29

申请号：US17759840

申请日：2021-02-15

申请人： Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC

发明人： Christopher Paul Muzzillo ,  Matthew Owen Reese

IPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  G03F7/004 ,  H01L31/18

CPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  G03F7/0043 ,  H01L31/1828 ,  H01L31/1884

摘要： Disclosed herein are methods for using cracked film lithography (CFL) for patterning transparent conductive metal grids. CFL can be vacuum- and Ag-free, and it forms more durable grids than nanowire approaches.

公开(公告)号：US20240322057A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18680927

申请日：2024-05-31

申请人： First Solar, Inc.

发明人： Shuping Lin ,  Raffael Reineker ,  Hongqing Shan ,  Joachim Leopold Ludwig Müller ,  Bernd Sprecher ,  Kay Orgassa

IPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/0224 ,  H01L31/032

CPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/022425 ,  H01L31/0322

摘要： A method of patterning a thin-film photovoltaic layer stack includes the steps of providing a continuous layer stack comprising a planar substrate, a first electrode layer on the substrate and a photovoltaic layer on the first electrode layer, immersing the layer stack into an electrically conductive solution, applying a bias voltage between the electrolyte solution and the first electrode layer and converting a first material or a first material composition provided in at least a first portion of the layer stack into a first reaction product by an electrochemical reaction, wherein the first reaction product has an electrical conductivity that is lower than an electrical conductivity of the first material or first material composition, or removing a first material or a first material composition provided in at least a first portion of the layer stack by an electrochemical reaction.

公开(公告)号：US20240258448A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18565529

申请日：2022-05-17

申请人： CNBM RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED GLASS MATERIALS GROUP CO.,LTD. ,  TRIUMPH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.

发明人： Yilei SHEN ,  Torben KLINKERT

IPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/0224 ,  H01L31/0465

CPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/022433 ,  H01L31/0465

摘要： A layer stack for thin-film photovoltaic modules includes a back electrode, an absorber, a buffer/i-layer, a front electrode and an interlayer which are sequentially stacked on a corresponding substrate from bottom up by vacuum coating deposition. The layer stack is divided by P1, P2 and P3 structure lines respectively. A conductive metal grid is embedded in the layer stack, and the metal grid is deposited on the buffer/i-layer before or after the P2 structure line. According to the present invention, the conductive metal grid is embedded in the layer stack, and the metal grid is deposited on the buffer/i-layer before or after the P2 structure line, thereby forming an embedded grid, and thus, the front electrode and the interlayer can be deposited without breaking vacuum in the process sequence. The embedded grid reduces capital expenditure and operating cost.

公开(公告)号：US20240170593A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-23

申请号：US17786500

申请日：2022-03-24

申请人： CANDO-SOLAR PHOTOELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY (CHANGZHOU) CO., LTD.

发明人： Pinru HUANG ,  Yaolun HUANG ,  Jiayuan HUANG

IPC分类号： H01L31/048 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/18

CPC分类号： H01L31/0481 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/18

摘要： The present disclosure relates to a photovoltaic module with pattern and a preparation method thereof. The photovoltaic module with pattern includes a photovoltaic cell layer and a transparent encapsulation structure encapsulating the photovoltaic cell layer, patterned gap spaces are provided inside the transparent encapsulation structure for forming a low refractive index region, and refractive index difference between the patterned gap spaces and a physical medium inside the photovoltaic module forms a pattern on a surface of the photovoltaic module. The preparation method thereof is: firstly, preparing the photovoltaic cell layer and various structural layers of an encapsulation structure, and then typesetting and laminating the same into a photovoltaic module.

公开(公告)号：US11876139B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US17369753

申请日：2021-07-07

申请人： The Solaria Corporation

发明人： Lisong Zhou ,  Huaming Zhou ,  Zhixun Zhang

IPC分类号： H01L31/0216 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/02 ,  H01L31/0236 ,  H01L31/18 ,  H01L31/036 ,  H01L31/05

CPC分类号： H01L31/02168 ,  H01L31/02002 ,  H01L31/02366 ,  H01L31/036 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/0512 ,  H01L31/18 ,  H01L2221/1068

摘要： The present disclosure describes methods of forming a colored conductive ribbon for a solar module which includes combining a conductive ribbon with a channeled ribbon holder, applying a color coating to at least the conductive ribbon within the channel, curing the color coating on the conductive ribbon, and separating the conductive ribbon from the channeled holder.

公开(公告)号：US11515440B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-29

申请号：US16649979

申请日：2018-09-26

申请人： CNBM RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED GLASS MATERIALS GROUP CO., LTD.

发明人： Andreas Heiss ,  Joerg Palm ,  Helmut Vogt

IPC分类号： H01L31/0468 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/0465 ,  H01L31/0224

摘要： A thin-film solar module with a substrate and a layer structure applied thereon comprising a rear electrode layer, a front electrode layer, and an absorber layer arranged between the back electrode layer and the front electrode layer. Serially connected solar cells are formed in the layer region by patterning zones, having a rear electrode layer section. The layer region has at least one linear decoating region. The decoating region has an alternating sequence of optically transparent zones and electrode zones. The optically transparent zones are rear-electrode-layer-free and the electrode zones are absorber-layer-free and have a rear electrode layer section. The rear-electrode-layer-sections of at least one pair made up of one solar cell of one solar cell string and one solar cell of the other solar cell string are areally connected to one another by the rear-electrode-layer-section of at least one electrode zone.

公开(公告)号：US20220158012A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-19

申请号：US17527285

申请日：2021-11-16

申请人： SunPower Corporation

发明人： Ruihua LI ,  Yafu LIN

IPC分类号： H01L31/049 ,  H01L31/0224 ,  H01L31/0216 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/18

摘要： A solar module includes solar cells that are encapsulated. A back layer is disposed towards back sides of the solar cells and a transparent layer is disposed towards front sides of the solar cells. A protection coating is formed on a surface of the solar cells. The protection coating can be continuous or have a pattern with cutouts that expose the surface of the solar cells.

公开(公告)号：US20220109078A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17644514

申请日：2021-12-15

申请人： Garmin Switzerland GmbH

发明人： Mohamed Bouchoucha ,  Brice Arrazat

IPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/0468

摘要： A semi-transparent photovoltaic module comprises a basic 2D pattern representing an arrangement of an electrically conductive zone and electrically non-conductive zones such that any point in the electrically conductive zone is electrically connected to any other point of the zone and the electrically conductive zone is a regular or pseudo-regular structure formed by an elementary geometrical figure. The module additionally comprises one or more active isolation lines and a plurality of non-functional isolation lines that are mutually parallel.

公开(公告)号：US20210351310A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17314229

申请日：2021-05-07

申请人： AmberWave, Inc.

发明人： Anthony Lochtefeld

IPC分类号： H01L31/0463 ,  H01L31/18

摘要： The present disclosure describes a solar cell that in one embodiment includes a substrate having a first thermal expansion coefficient; and a strain balancing layer on a surface of the substrate having a second thermal expansion greater than the first thermal expansion coefficient. The solar cell further includes a solder bonding layer on a surface of the strain balancing layer to position the strain balancing layer between the solder bonding layer and the supporting substrate. The solar cell further includes a semiconductor junction having a bonded surface on the solder bonding layer that is opposite the surface of the solder bonding layer engaged to the strain balancing layer.

公开(公告)号：US11114252B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-07

申请号：US16788632

申请日：2020-02-12

申请人： CPC Corporation, Taiwan

发明人： Kuan-Chieh Huang ,  Li-Chung Lai ,  Chung-Kwang Lee

IPC分类号： H01G9/20 ,  H01G9/00 ,  H01L51/42 ,  H01L51/44 ,  H01L31/0463 ,  H01L21/203 ,  H01L21/768 ,  H01L45/00 ,  H01L51/00

摘要： Disclosures of the present invention mainly describe a method for manufacturing perovskite solar cell module. At first, a laser scribing is adopted for forming multi transparent conductive films (TCFs) on a transparent substrate. Subsequently, by using a first mask, multi HTLs, active layers, and ETLs are sequentially formed on the TCFs. Consequently, by the use of a second make, each of the ETLs is formed with an electrically connecting layer thereon, such that a perovskite solar cell module comprising a plurality of solar cell units is hence completed on the transparent substrate. It is worth explaining that, during the whole manufacturing process, each of the solar cell units is prevented from receiving bad influences that are provided by laser scribing or manufacture environment, such that each of the solar cell units is able to exhibit outstanding photoelectric conversion efficiency.