Solar battery assembly and method of forming a solar battery assembly
AssigneeMitsui High-Tec, Inc.
InventorsAtsushi Fukui, Keisuke Kimoto, Migaku Ishida
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Abstract
A method of forming a solar battery assembly. The method includes the steps of: providing a plurality of spherically-shaped cells, each having a semiconductor layer and an outer electrode layer; forming a solder layer between the plurality of spherically-shaped cells so as to maintain the plurality of spherically-shaped cells in a desired relationship; removing a part of the outer electrode layer to expose a part of the semiconductor layer; and placing an inner electrode in contact with the exposed part of the semiconductor layer.
Claims34
A method of forming a solar battery assembly, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of spherically-shaped cells each comprising a semiconductor layer and an outer electrode layer;
- forming a solder layer between the plurality of spherically-shaped cells so as to maintain the plurality of spherically-shaped cells in a desired relationship;
- removing a part of the outer electrode layer to expose a part of the a semiconductor layer;
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- placing an inner electrode in contact with the exposed part of the semiconductor layer.
A solar battery assembly comprising:
- a plurality of cells each comprising a semiconductor layer and an outer electrode layer,
- the semiconductor layer comprising a P-type layer and an N-type layer,
- there being a part of one of the N-type and P-type layers exposed through the outer electrode layer;
- a conductive layer fixed to the plurality of cells in contact with the exposed part of the one of the N-type and P-type layers;
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- a solder layer between the conductive layer and the plurality of cells so as to electrically connect between the outer electrodes of the plurality of cells,
- the solder layer electrically insulated from the conductive layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.