% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Haas:139312, author = {Haas, Stefan and Krumscheid, Sebastian and Bauer, Andreas and Lambertz, Andreas and Rau, Uwe}, title = {{N}ovel series connection concept for thin film solar modules}, journal = {Progress in photovoltaics}, volume = {21}, number = {5}, issn = {1062-7995}, address = {Chichester}, publisher = {Wiley}, reportid = {FZJ-2013-05309}, pages = {972 - 979}, year = {2013}, abstract = {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.}, cin = {IEK-5}, ddc = {690}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-5-20101013}, pnm = {111 - Thin Film Photovoltaics (POF2-111)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-111}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000322012700016}, doi = {10.1002/pip.2188}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/139312}, }