TY  - JOUR
AU  - Haas, Stefan
AU  - Krumscheid, Sebastian
AU  - Bauer, Andreas
AU  - Lambertz, Andreas
AU  - Rau, Uwe
TI  - Novel series connection concept for thin film solar modules
JO  - Progress in photovoltaics
VL  - 21
IS  - 5
SN  - 1062-7995
CY  - Chichester
PB  - Wiley
M1  - FZJ-2013-05309
SP  - 972 - 979
PY  - 2013
AB  - The paper introduces a newtype of series connection that considerably increases the active area and thus the efficiency of a thin film module by a superior arrangement of the patterning grooves. The new concept is mainly based on pointwise contacts instead of continuous, stripe-like contacts between adjacent cell stripes combined with amodified arrangement of the isolation grooves. We describe the functionality of the innovative series connection and present a method to calculate the optimal cell stripe geometry for cells based on the new series connection concept. Finally, the applicability of the new concept for a laser-patterned thin film silicon solarmodule is demonstrated. The new series connection leads to a relative efficiency increase of approximately 3% compared with the standard series connection for thin film modules.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000322012700016
DO  - DOI:10.1002/pip.2188
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/139312
ER  -