Process for making solar panel and the solar panel made thereof
AssigneeDu Pont Apollo Limited
InventorsChiou Fu Wang, Huo-Hsien Chiang
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Abstract
The present invention provides a process for making solar panels. The process of the present invention avoids the use of laser scribing so it is particularly useful in making flexible solar panels. In addition, the present invention provides an alternative scheme for connecting the first electrodes and second electrodes in a solar panel.
Claims20
A process for making a flexible solar panel comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a substrate with patterned first electrodes thereon;
- (b) sequentially depositing a layer of a first material and a layer of a second material on the substrate with patterned first electrodes;
- (c) forming a plurality of patterned photoresists on the layer of the second material and at a plurality of conductive channels;
- (d) wet etching the layer of the first material and the layer of the second material to form a plurality of T-shaped structures at the conductive channels, wherein the etching rate for the first material is higher than that for the second material;
- (e) depositing at least a semiconductor film on the substrate with the patterned first electrodes to form photoelectrical conversion elements;
- (f) depositing at least one second electrode on the semiconductor film, so as to electrically connect the second electrodes to the first electrodes at the conductive channels;
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- (g) scribing the second electrodes and semiconductor film to separate individual cell to form a solar panel.
A solar panel comprising a substrate, first electrodes, a T-shaped structure which is composed of a first material and a second material on each of the first electrode, photoelectrical conversion elements and second electrodes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.