WO2011000361A2 - Verfahren zur herstellung und serienverschaltung von streifenförmigen elementen auf einem substrat - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method for producing and series connection of strip-shaped elements on a substrate, in particular to a solar module and to a solar module.
- the series connection of photovoltaic elements to a solar module is used to add the light-induced energy generated in the elements, without a short circuit is generated.
- a first electrical contact with a second electrical contact of two photovoltaic elements is conductively connected to each other regularly, wherein the contacts, also called electrodes, are arranged on the opposite sides of the photovoltaic element.
- first electrical contact over the entire surface as a layer on a substrate.
- the first contact layer is subdivided from the surface down to the substrate by a first structuring step Pl into a plurality of strips arranged in parallel.
- first structuring step P1 the active semiconductor layers are applied over the entire surface of the surface of the structured first contact, and the trenches therein are filled up.
- the semiconductor layers are then divided into a plurality of strips by a second patterning process P2, starting from the surface of the semiconductor layers to the surface of the first electrical contact.
- the second structuring process P2 takes place close to and parallel to the first structuring process P1 and the strip-like subdivisions of the first electrical contact.
- a second electrical contact layer is arranged on the surface of the strip-like subdivided photovoltaic element and in turn subdivided into strips.
- the third structuring process P3 divides the second electrical contact, starting from its surface up to the surface of the semiconductor layers, into a plurality of strips arranged in parallel. P3 is closest to and parallel to IeI to the second structuring process P2 and parallel, but further away from the first structuring process Pl instead.
- a disadvantage of this standard method is a low degree of energy conversion of the series-connected photovoltaic elements of the solar module.
- the object of the invention is to provide a method for producing and series connection strip-shaped elements, in particular to a solar module, which leads to a higher degree of energy conversion.
- Another object of the invention is to provide a corresponding solar module with increased energy conversion efficiency.
- a plurality of more or less strip-shaped, preferably parallel, first electrical contact layers are first formed on a substrate or superstrate.
- substrate z. B all in the solar cell technology, in particular thin-film solar cell technology as well as in the thin-film technology as such customary substrates or superstrate freely selectable, such as metal foils made of steel or aluminum (substrate).
- superstrat z As glass or plastic films used.
- the substrate may include functional layers for improved light scattering or for improved growth of the contact layer on the support.
- As the first electrical contact layer material such. As Al / ZnO or Ag / ZnO (substrate) or ZnO, SnO 2 or ITO (superstrate) can be selected.
- the strip-shaped electrical contact layers are insulated in strip form over the length of the elements by mutually parallel first trenches up to the surface of the substrate.
- a limiting framework for the elements can be provided.
- the length of the substrate (L) extends at least over the length of the elements (L).
- the strip-shaped first contact layers can, for. B. are formed by lithographic processes with mask and spray or etching on the substrate or superstrate. They can also be formed by first applying a contact layer over the entire surface of the substrate and then patterning it, for. B. by laser ablation or mask and etching. Other methods and combinations of methods are possible.
- the semiconductor layers are subsequently formed on the strip-shaped first electrical contact layers or in the first trenches.
- the semiconductor layers are formed with area-shaped, preferably punctiform recesses on each edge of each of the first trenches.
- a plurality of strip-shaped, preferably parallel, second electrical contact layers are arranged on the semiconductor layers.
- the region-shaped recesses in the semiconductor layers are advantageously filled.
- area-shaped contacts of a respective second electrical contact layer of an element (A) are thereby formed in each case to a first electrical contact layer of an adjacent element (B).
- second trenches serve to insulate the second electrical contact layers over the length of the elements and are formed therein for this purpose. among them Accordingly, the surface of the first electrical contact layer can be exposed or the semiconductor layers.
- the first trenches for insulating the first electrical contact layers and / or the second trenches for insulating the second electrical contact layers advantageously extend with meandering or angular sections around the area-shaped recesses, so that viewed in plan, each recess between a first trench and a second trench is arranged, or they are formed around the recesses around, so that the adjacent elements are memorinext.
- the object of the invention is achieved, since space-saving, the majority of semiconductor layers can be used. Compared with the prior art, a much smaller space requirement for the series connection is necessary, as is assumed in the prior art of juxtaposed structuring. The area between these structures is not accessible for energy generation.
- the number of meandering or angular sections of the first and / or second trenches should correspond to the number of recesses. Both the first and the second trenches may have meandering sections.
- a second trench associated with each first trench is formed above it.
- the length of the element 2 to 50 preferably 5 to 30, in particular 10 to 20 recesses along the edges of the trenches are formed.
- the length of the substrate is then preferably about 10 cm. For larger substrates more recesses should be formed. The smaller the area of the recesses, the more space is left to generate energy.
- the choice of the distance between the recesses depends, inter alia, on their size. It may preferably be chosen a distance of 0.2 millimeters to 100 millimeters, in particular 1.5 millimeters to 10 millimeters along the edge of a trench.
- the lateral distance between a first and an associated second trench may be up to 2 millimeters for the isolation of adjacent contact layers. He should not be too big. Except in the region of the recesses, the first trench should be disposed particularly advantageously directly above the second trench, as seen in plan view, so that a large part of both trenches extends congruently together over the length of the elements.
- the area-shaped recesses should preferably be punctiform, z. B. with an area of up to 1 mm 2 , in particular up to 0.01 mm 2 are produced.
- the area-shaped recesses for the contacts are therefore comparatively small in order to be able to fully utilize the semiconductor layers lying between the recesses for power generation.
- laser ablation can also be used to form the first and / or the second trenches and / or the recesses.
- masks formed according to the formed structures may be arranged to form the first and / or second trenches and / or the recesses and then etched to form trenches or recesses.
- Any PVD or CVD or spray process or printing process is applicable to the deposition of layers, also and more particularly to an ink jet printing process.
- An etching process may also be selected for making the first and / or the second trenches and / or the recesses.
- Particularly advantageous materials for the semiconductor layers and the contact layers are arranged so that they are able to form strip-shaped photovoltaic elements over the length of the substrate, z.
- At least one n-i-p or p-i-n structure can be arranged as active semiconductor layers on the first electrical contact layers.
- As a second electrical contact layer ZnO / Ag can be formed strip-shaped.
- the layer structure thus formed comprises a substrate comprising a plurality of strip-shaped first electrical contact layers, preferably arranged parallel to one another along the length of the substrate, as well as semiconducting layers, which are arranged above the first electrical contact layers, and a plurality of strip-shaped, preferably parallel, second electrical contact layers over the length of the substrate, which are arranged on the semiconducting layers.
- the second electrical contact layers contact the first electrical contact layers via region-shaped recesses in the semiconducting layers.
- the area-shaped recesses do not extend over the length (L) of the elements, as in the prior art. Incidentally, the edges of the area-shaped recesses are exclusively formed by material of the semiconductive layers.
- first trenches are arranged in the first electrical contact layers and second trenches are arranged in the second electrical contact layers, wherein the first and / or the second trenches with meandering sections are guided tightly around the recesses.
- the second electrical contact layers and / or the first electrical contact layers have a plan view, meandering, z. B. angular or circular areas around the area-shaped recesses around. Since the first trenches and the second trenches viewed in plan view, close or close, preferably even largely congruent, that are arranged without lateral offset one above the other, all areas between the recesses over the length of the elements for energy production can be used.
- the area-shaped recesses are formed between a respective first and a second trench.
- a solar module may have this layer structure.
- the second electrical contact layers and the first electrical contact layers and the semiconductive layers consist of materials which form photovoltaic elements (A, B, C) over the length of the substrate.
- a special method for producing and series connecting photovoltaic elements (A, B, C) on a substrate provides that first of all a first electrical contact is arranged as a layer on the substrate and subdivided in strips to form the surface of the substrate by forming parallel first trenches therein becomes. Then semiconductor layers are arranged on the first electrical contact or in the first trenches. net and area-shaped recesses formed by removing the semiconductor layers parallel to an edge of each of the first trenches.
- a second electrical contact on the semiconductor layers preferably be arranged over the entire surface, so that the recesses are filled.
- the second electrical contact and the semiconductor layers are removed at the location of the first trenches, with the exception of the regions arranged adjacent to the recesses, so that a number of photovoltaic elements (A, B, C) corresponding to the number of trenches are electrically isolated from one another.
- at least the second electrical contact layer and optionally the active semiconductor layers are removed up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer around the remaining region of the recesses, so that the first contact of a photovoltaic element (B) through the second contact of an adjacent element (A) is series-connected by a plurality, preferably punctiform contacts.
- a solar cell module according to the invention particularly advantageously has a ratio of the area of the active series-connected semiconductor layers to the total area of the module of at least 98%, preferably more than 98.5%, in particular 99% or more.
- a photovoltaic element is locally punctiform and selectively removed by a second patterning process P2, starting from the surface of the semiconductor layers to the surface of the first electrical contact.
- This second patterning process P2 is as close as possible to and parallel to the parallel arranged first trenches in first electrical contact instead. It is also possible to place these punctiform recesses directly on the structural edges of the trenches.
- a second electrical contact layer is then z on the active semiconductor layers and in the punctiform recesses. B. over the entire surface and on the first contact layer opposite side of the semiconductor layers.
- this second electrical contact and the semiconductor layers are divided into strips by a third structuring step P3.
- the necessary trenches are preferably formed at the location of the first trenches.
- the second contact and the active semiconductor layers are preferably formed on the trenches of the first structuring step P1, provided there is no recess in the active semiconductor material next to the trench caused by the second structuring step P2.
- the third structuring runs on the three sides next to the contacting hole, which do not face the trench caused by the first structuring Pl.
- the structuring trenches must give a continuous line in order to prevent an electrical short circuit of the photovoltaic elements.
- the reference symbols A, B, C indicate the photovoltaic elements, the reference symbol L stands for the length of the elements or of the substrate.
- FIG. 1 shows the production and punctiform series connection of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C into a functional solar module, in which the structuring of the active semiconductor layers 6 is arranged in a punctiform manner, parallel to the first structuring trench 5.
- FIG. 1a shows a plan view of a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic elements in a solar module.
- a detail enlargement shows in each case three mutually parallel strips A, B, C.
- the nomenclature P 1-3 in the figures indicates the approximate position and number of structuring per trench or per dotted semiconductor structure.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed from the first and second electrical contact layers 1, 3 and the semiconductor layers 2 arranged therebetween.
- FIG. 1b shows the starting point of the method.
- a first electrical TCO contact layer 1 Transparent Conductive Oxide
- the substrate 4 glass with a base of 100 cm 2 has been selected.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 made of ZnO was deposited thereon.
- a functional layer for improved pattern formation of the ZnO is disposed between the substrate 4 and the ZnO and associated with the substrate (not shown).
- the first electrical contact layer 1 of wet-chemically textured zinc oxide has a thickness of approximately 800 nm.
- material is removed from the first electrical contact layer 1 by laser ablation, so that the surface of the substrate 4 is exposed in the trenches 5 arranged in parallel.
- This patterning process P1 is performed successively for all the photovoltaic elements A, B, C.
- the laser is stirred for this purpose by a relative movement over the surface of the substrate 4. Distance and power are adjusted so that material of layers 1 is removed.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE THG, with a wavelength of 355 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the material of the contact layer 1.
- An average power of 300 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 15 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 250 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 100 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side through the transparent substrate 4 onto the layer 1 to be ablated.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, with each pulse results in a circular ablation with a diameter of about 35 microns.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 is separated from one another by the first patterning process P1 up to the substrate 4 by parallel arranged first trenches 5.
- the strip-shaped first electrical contact layers of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are electrically insulated from one another by the trenches 5 on the substrate 4.
- a plurality of first trenches 5 for the separation of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed in this way (see Fig. 1 a: vertical strips in the module on the right).
- the structuring process Pl proceeds by means of computer-aided control.
- the structuring process P1 is repeated as often as photovoltaic elements are to be generated.
- the edge length of the glass substrate 4 is 10 ⁇ 10 cm, approximately 16 trenches 5 arranged in parallel are formed so that a strip A, B or C has a width of approximately 0.5 cm.
- the thickness of the microcrystalline pin layer stack 2 as the active semiconductor layer 2 is about 1300 nm.
- the active semiconductor layers 2 are removed to form punctiform recesses 6 up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer 1 (FIG. 1e)).
- the material to the right next to the right edge of the trenches 5, which was generated by the first structuring process P1 is removed in each case in order to be able to form punctiform contacts to the photovoltaic elements arranged on the left of the trenches, in this case from element A to element B (Fig. If and Ii)).
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for ablation of the materials of the semiconductor layers 2. Since both the substrate 4 and the first electrical cantakt layer 1 are highly transparent at the selected specific wavelength of 532 nm, then selective removal of the active semiconductor layers is desired 2 guaranteed.
- An energy per laser pulse of about 40 ⁇ J is selected.
- the pulse repetition rate is 533 Hz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s. As a result, a distance between the holes of about 1, 5 mm is achieved.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm.
- the beam is guided from the substrate side 4 onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical Gaussian intensity distribution, whereby per pulse a circular ablation with a diameter of approximately 70 ⁇ m results.
- the strip-shaped parallel arranged photovoltaic elements A, B, C are present on the substrate 4, with punctiform recesses 6 in the later active semiconductor layers 2 for the realization of a punctiform series connection exist (Fig If)).
- a plurality of openings 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer 1 of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed.
- the structuring process P2 is repeated as many times as photovoltaic elements are present.
- the second electrical contact 3 is disposed on the active semiconductor layer 2.
- a second electrical contact layer 3 a layer system of 80 nm zinc oxide in combination with a 200 nm thick silver layer is chosen.
- the zinc oxide layer is followed by the silver layer.
- the trenches 7, caused by the structuring process P3 are formed so that the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 are removed at the location of the first trenches 5 at those locations where no recess 6 for contacting the first electrical Contact layer is located.
- the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 in the regions in which recesses 6 are located are removed such that below, above and to the right of the recesses 6 the material of the semiconductor layers 2 and of the second electrical contact 3 Will get removed.
- the individual regions between two photovoltaic elements A, B, in which material has been removed by this structuring step, are linked such that they result in a continuous insulation of the second contact of two adjacent regions A, B. As a result, a short circuit between two adjacent photovoltaic elements A, B is prevented in the following (FIG. 1h, i)).
- the laser used to remove the material from layers 2 and 3 is an Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the materials of both layers 2, 3.
- An average power of 410 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 11 kHz.
- the Speed of relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical Gaussian intensity distribution, whereby per pulse a circular ablation with a diameter of approximately 70 ⁇ m results.
- the approximately U-shaped insulation 9 is formed around the recesses 6 and the contact webs 8 for point-serial connection of the elements.
- this structuring process P3 is again carried out along the entire strip, there is a trench 7, which is largely located on the trench 5 and is arranged to a very small extent offset from the first trench 5.
- the structuring process P3 is repeated as often as the structuring processes P1 and P2 and the layers 1, 2, 3 in a plurality of strip-shaped, mutually parallel photovoltaic elements, separated by the trenches 5 and 7 and connected in series with each other through the recesses 6, available.
- a recess 6 is required approximately every 1.5 millimeters.
- An advantage of this embodiment over the prior art is that much less area is needed for the series connection and thus a higher conversion efficiency can be realized.
- the distance between the holes 6 to each other is adjusted so that the total loss caused by the shading, resulting from conduction losses caused by the electrical contact layers 1 and 3 and area losses caused by the material ablation and shading are minimized.
- FIG. 2 shows the production and punctiform series connection of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C to a functional solar module, in which the structuring of the active components Ven semiconductor layers 6 punctiform, parallel to the first structuring trench 5, is arranged.
- FIG. 2a shows a plan view of a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic elements in a solar module.
- a detail enlargement shows in each case three mutually parallel strips A, B, C.
- the nomenclature P 1-3 in the figures indicates the approximate position and number of structuring per trench or per dotted semiconductor structure.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed from the first and second electrical contact layers 1, 3 and the semiconductor layers 2 arranged therebetween.
- FIG. 2b shows the starting point of the method.
- a first electrical TCO contact layer 1 Transparent Conductive Oxide
- the substrate 4 glass with a base of 100 cm 2 has been selected.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 made of ZnO was deposited thereon.
- a functional layer for improved pattern formation of the ZnO is disposed between the substrate 4 and the ZnO and associated with the substrate (not shown).
- the basis of the embodiment is a 10x10 cm 2 large glass.
- a first electrical contact layer 1 of wet-chemically textured zinc oxide having a thickness of about 800 nm.
- first structuring process P1 material is removed from the first electrical contact layer 1 by laser ablation, so that the surface of the substrate 4 is exposed in the trenches 5 arranged in parallel.
- This patterning process P1 is performed successively for all the photovoltaic elements A, B, C.
- the laser is guided for this purpose by a relative movement over the surface of the substrate 4. Distance and power are adjusted so that the material of the layers 1 is removed.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE THG, with a wavelength of 355 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the material of the contact layer 1.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 250 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 100 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side through the transparent substrate 4 onto the layer 1 to be ablated.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric Gaussian intensity distribution, with each pulse resulting in a circular ablation with a diameter of about 35 microns.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 is separated from one another by the first structuring process P1 up to the substrate 4 by parallel arranged first trenches 5.
- the strip-shaped first electrical contact layers of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are electrically insulated from one another by the trenches 5 on the substrate 4.
- a plurality of first trenches 5 for the separation of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed in this way (see Fig. 2a: vertical strips in the module on the right).
- the structuring process Pl proceeds by means of computer-aided control.
- the structuring process Pl is repeated as often as photovo Itaische elements are to be generated.
- the edge length of the glass substrate 4 is 10 ⁇ 10 cm, approximately 16 trenches 5 arranged in parallel are formed so that a strip A, B or C has a width of approximately 0.5 cm.
- the entire substrate 4 on the side on which the first electrical contact layer 1 is located covered with a microcrystalline pin solar cell 2 made of silicon so that the first electrical contact layer 1 and the trenches 5 covered with the silicon of the layers 2 or are filled (Fig. 2d)).
- the thickness of the microcrystalline p-type n-layer stack 2 as the active semiconductor layer 2 is in this case approximately 1300 nm in total.
- the active semiconductor layers 2 are removed to form punctiform recesses 6 up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer 1 (FIG. 2e)).
- the material to the right of the right edge of the trenches 5, which was produced by the first structuring process P1 is removed for each trench in order to form punctiform contacts to the left of the To form trenches arranged photovoltaic elements, in this case from element A to element B (Fig. 2f)).
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for ablation of the materials of the semiconductor layers 2. Since both the substrate 4 and the first electrical cantakt layer 1 are highly transparent at the selected specific wavelength of 532 nm, selective removal of the active is Semiconductor layers 2 ensures.
- An energy per laser pulse of about 40 ⁇ J is selected.
- the pulse repetition rate is 800 Hz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s. As a result, a distance between the holes of 1 mm is achieved.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm.
- the beam is guided from the substrate side 4 onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are present on the substrate 4, with point-shaped recesses 6 in the later-active semiconductor layers 2 for the realization of a punctiform series connection (FIG. 2f)).
- a plurality of openings 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer 1 of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed.
- the structuring process P2 is repeated as many times as photovoltaic elements are present.
- the second electrical contact 3 is disposed on the active semiconductor layer 2.
- a second electrical contact layer 3 a layer system of 80 nm zinc oxide in combination with a 200 nm thick silver layer is chosen. This is located on the silicon layer stack 2 on the Side of the second electrical contact layer, first the zinc oxide layer followed by the silver layer (FIG. 2g)).
- the trenches 7, caused by the structuring process P3, are formed in such a way that the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 are removed slightly offset from the location of the first trenches 5 at those locations where no recess 6 for contacting tion of the first electrical contact layer is located.
- the trenches 7 are offset by approximately 150 ⁇ m in the direction of the recesses 6 with respect to the trenches 5 (FIG. 2h, i)).
- the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 in the regions in which recesses 6 are located are removed such that below, above and to the right of the recesses 6 the material of the semiconductor layers 2 and of the second electrical contact 3 Will get removed.
- the individual regions between two photovoltaic elements A, B, in which material has been removed by this structuring step, are linked such that they result in a continuous insulation of the second contact of two adjacent regions A, B. As a result, a short circuit of two adjacent photovoltaic elements A, B is prevented in the following.
- the laser used to remove the material from layers 2 and 3 is an Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the materials of both layers 2, 3.
- An average power of 410 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 11 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns.
- the approximately U-shaped insulation 9 is formed around the recesses for the point-shaped series connection of the elements. Since this patterning process P3 is again carried out along the entire strip, there is a trench 7, which is arranged offset to the first trench 5.
- the structuring process P3 is repeated as often as the structuring processes P1 and P2 and the layers 1, 2, 3 in a plurality of strip-like, parallel arranged photovoltaic elements, separated by the trenches 5 and 7 and connected in series with each other through the recesses 6, present.
- a recess 6 is required approximately every 1 millimeter.
- An advantage of this embodiment over the prior art is that less area is needed for the series connection and thus a higher conversion efficiency can be realized.
- the distance between the holes 6 to each other is adjusted so that the total losses caused by the interconnection, resulting from conduction losses caused by the electrical contact layers 1 and 3 and area losses, caused by the material ablation and interconnection are minimized.
- FIG. 3 shows the production and punctiform series connection of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C into a functional solar module, in which the structuring of the active semiconductor layers 6 is arranged in a punctiform manner, parallel to the first structuring trench 5.
- FIG. 3 a shows a plan view of a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic elements in a solar module.
- a detail enlargement shows in each case three mutually parallel strips A, B, C.
- the nomenclature P 1-3 in the figures indicates the approximate position and number of structuring per trench, or per dotted semiconductor structure.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed from the first and second electrical contact layers 1, 3 and the semiconductor layers 2 arranged therebetween.
- FIG. 3b) shows the starting point of the method.
- a first electrical TCO contact layer 1 Transparent Conductive Oxide
- the substrate 4 glass with a base of 100 cm 2 has been selected.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 made of ZnO was deposited thereon.
- a functional layer for improved pattern formation of the ZnO is disposed between the substrate 4 and the ZnO and associated with the substrate (not shown).
- the basis of the embodiment is a 10x10 cm 2 large glass.
- a first electrical contact layer 1 of wet-chemically textured zinc oxide having a thickness of about 800 nm.
- a first structuring process P1 (FIG. 3 c)
- material is removed from the first electrical contact layer 1 by laser ablation, so that the surface of the substrate 4 is exposed in the trenches 5 arranged in parallel.
- This patterning process P1 is performed successively for all the photovoltaic elements A, B, C.
- the laser is guided for this purpose by a relative movement over the surface of the substrate 4. Distance and power are adjusted so that material of layers 1 is removed.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE THG, with a wavelength of 355 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the material of the contact layer 1.
- An average power of 300 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 15 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 250 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 100 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side through the transparent substrate 4 onto the layer 1 to be ablated.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, with each pulse results in a circular ablation with a diameter of about 35 microns.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 is separated from one another by the first patterning process P1 up to the substrate 4 by parallel arranged first trenches 5.
- the strip-shaped parallel first electrical contact layers of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are electrically isolated from each other by the Trenches 5 on the substrate 4 before.
- a multiplicity of first trenches 5 for separating the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed in this way (see Fig. 3a: vertical strips in the module on the right).
- the structuring process Pl proceeds by means of computer-aided control.
- the structuring process Pl is repeated as often as photovo Itaische elements are to be generated.
- the edge length of the glass substrate 4 is 10 ⁇ 10 cm, approximately 16 trenches 5 arranged in parallel are formed so that a strip A, B or C has a width of approximately 0.5 cm.
- the entire substrate 4 on the side on which the first electrical contact layer 1 is located, covered with a microcrystalline pin solar cell 2 made of silicon so that the first electrical contact layer 1 and the trenches 5 covered with the silicon of the layers 2 or are filled (Fig. 3d)).
- the thickness of the microcrystalline p-type n-layer stack 2 as the active semiconductor layer 2 is in this case approximately 1300 nm in total.
- the active semiconductor layers 2 are removed to form punctiform recesses 6 up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer 1 (FIG. 3e)).
- the material to the right of the right edge of the trenches 5, which was produced by the first structuring process Pl, is removed for each trench in order to be able to form punctiform contacts to the photovoltaic elements arranged on the left of the trenches, in the present case from element A to element B (FIG. Fig. 3f)).
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for ablation of the materials of the semiconductor layers 2. Since both the substrate 4 and the first electrical cantakt layer 1 are highly transparent at the selected specific wavelength of 532 nm, then selective removal of the active semiconductor layers is desired 2 guaranteed. It will be one Energy selected per laser pulse of about 40 ⁇ J.
- the pulse repetition rate is 533 Hz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s. As a result, a distance between the holes of 1, 5 mm is achieved.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm.
- the beam is guided from the substrate side 4 onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are present on the substrate 4, with point-shaped recesses 6 in the later-active semiconductor layers 2 for the realization of a punctiform series connection (FIG. 3f)).
- a plurality of openings 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer 1 of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed.
- the structuring process P2 is repeated as many times as photovoltaic elements are present.
- the second electrical contact 3 is disposed on the active semiconductor layer 2.
- a second electrical contact layer 3 a layer system of 80 nm zinc oxide in combination with a 200 nm thick silver layer is chosen.
- the zinc oxide layer is followed by the silver layer.
- the trenches 7, caused by the structuring process P3, are formed such that the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 are slightly offset from the location of the first trenches 5 at those locations where there is no recess 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer is located.
- the trenches 7 are offset by approximately 150 microns opposite to the displacement direction of the recesses 6 with respect to the trenches 5.
- the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 in the areas in which recesses 6 are located in this way removes that beneath, above and to the right of the recesses 6, the material of the semiconductor layers 2 and the second electrical contact 3 is removed.
- the individual regions between two photovoltaic elements A, B, in which material has been removed by this structuring step, are linked such that they result in a continuous insulation of the second contact of two adjacent regions A, B. As a result, a short circuit between two adjacent photovoltaic elements A, B is prevented in the following (FIG. 3h, i)).
- the laser used to remove the material from layers 2 and 3 is an Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the materials of both layers 2, 3.
- An average power of 410 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 11 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns.
- the approximately U-shaped insulation 9 is formed around the recesses 6 and the contact webs 8 for point-serial connection of the elements.
- This patterning process P3 is again carried out along the entire strip, there is a trench 7, which is arranged offset to the first trench 5.
- the structuring process P3 is repeated as often as the structuring processes P1 and P2 and the layers 1, 2, 3 in a plurality of strip-shaped, mutually parallel photovoltaic elements, separated by the trenches 5 and 7 and connected in series with each other through the recesses 6, available.
- a recess 6 is required approximately every 1.5 millimeters.
- An advantage of this embodiment over the prior art is that less area is needed for the series connection and thus a higher conversion efficiency. Ciency can be realized.
- the distance between the holes 6 to each other is adjusted so that the total losses caused by the interconnection, resulting from conduction losses caused by the electrical contact layers 1 and 3 and area losses, caused by the material ablation and interconnection are minimized.
- FIG. 4 shows the production and punctiform series connection of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C into a functional solar module, in which the structuring of the active semiconductor layers 6 is punctiformly arranged within the meander-shaped structured regions 9 of the first structuring trench 5.
- FIG. 4a shows a plan view of a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic elements in a solar module.
- a detail enlargement shows in each case three mutually parallel strips A, B, C.
- the nomenclature P 1-3 in the figures indicates the approximate position and number of structuring per trench or per dotted semiconductor structure.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed from the first and second electrical contact layers 1, 3 and the semiconductor layers 2 arranged therebetween.
- FIG. 4b shows the starting point of the method.
- a first electrical TCO contact layer 1 Transparent Conductive Oxide
- the substrate 4 glass with a base of 100 cm 2 has been selected.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 made of ZnO was deposited thereon.
- a functional layer for improved pattern formation of the ZnO is disposed between the substrate 4 and the ZnO and associated with the substrate (not shown).
- the basis of the embodiment is a 10x10 cm 2 large glass.
- a first electrical contact layer 1 of wet-chemically textured zinc oxide having a thickness of about 800 nm.
- material is removed from the first electrical contact layer 1 by laser ablation, so that the surface of the substrate 4 is exposed in the processed regions 5.
- the laser beam is guided meandering over the substrate, so that contact webs 8 are generated within the first electrical contact (FIG. 4d)).
- the U-shaped protrusions are 1.5 mm apart.
- This patterning process P1 is performed successively for all the photovoltaic elements A, B, C.
- the laser is guided for this purpose by a relative movement over the surface of the substrate 4. Distance and power are adjusted so that material of layers 1 is removed.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE THG, with a wavelength of 355 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the material of the contact layer 1.
- An average power of 300 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 15 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 250 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 100 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side through the transparent substrate 4 onto the layer 1 to be ablated.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, with each pulse results in a circular ablation with a diameter of about 35 microns.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 is separated from one another by the first patterning process P1 up to the substrate 4 by parallel arranged first trenches 5.
- the strip-shaped first electrical contact layers of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are electrically insulated from one another by the trenches 5 on the substrate 4.
- a plurality of first trenches 5 for the separation of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed in this way (see Fig. 4a: vertical strips in the module on the right).
- the structuring process Pl proceeds by means of computer-aided control.
- the structuring process P1 is repeated as often as photovoltaic elements are to be generated.
- the entire substrate 4 on the side on which the first electrical contact layer 1 is located covered with a microcrystalline pin solar cell 2 made of silicon so that the first electrical contact layer 1 and the trenches 5 covered with the silicon of the layers 2 or are filled (Fig. 5e)).
- the thickness of the microcrystalline p-type n-layer stack 2 as the active semiconductor layer 2 is in this case approximately 1300 nm in total.
- the active semiconductor layers 2 are removed to form punctiform recesses 6 up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer 1 (FIG. 5f)).
- the punctiform recesses 6 are produced in the region of the contact webs 8 (FIG. 5 g)) in order to be able to form punctiform contacts between adjacent photovoltaic elements, in the present case from element A to element B.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for ablation of the materials of the semiconductor layers 2. Since both the substrate 4 and the first electrical cantakt layer 1 are highly transparent at the selected specific wavelength of 532 nm, then selective removal of the active semiconductor layers is desired 2 guaranteed.
- An energy per laser pulse of about 40 ⁇ J is selected.
- the pulse repetition rate is 533 Hz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s. As a result, a distance between the holes of 1, 5 millimeters is achieved.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm.
- the beam is guided from the substrate side 4 onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical, Gaussian intensity distribution, whereby per pulse a circular ablation with a diameter of approximately 70 ⁇ m results.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are present on the substrate 4, punctiform recesses 6 existing in the later-active semiconductor layers 2 for realizing a punctiform series connection.
- a plurality of openings 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer 1 of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed.
- the structuring process P2 is repeated as many times as photovoltaic elements are present.
- the second electrical contact 3 is disposed on the active semiconductor layer 2.
- a second electrical contact layer 3 a layer system of 80 nm zinc oxide in combination with a 200 nm thick silver layer is chosen.
- the zinc oxide layer is followed by the silver layer (FIG. 4h)).
- the trenches 7, caused by the structuring process P3 are formed so that the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 are removed at the location of the first trenches 5 at those locations where no recess 6 for contacting the first electrical Contact layer and no contact bar 8 is located.
- the trenches 7 are rectilinearly continued in the regions of the contact webs 8, so that here the electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers are removed and the underlying first electrical contact 1 is uncovered (FIG. 4i J)).
- the rectilinear trench 7 generates a continuous insulation of the second electrical contact of two adjacent areas A, B. As a result, a short circuit between two adjacent photovoltaic elements A, B is prevented in the following.
- the laser used to remove the material from layers 2 and 3 is an Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the materials of both layers 2, 3.
- An average power of 410 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 11 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm. Siert. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns
- this structuring process P3 is again carried out along the entire strip, there is a trench 7, which is located partly on the trench 5.
- the structuring process P3 is repeated as often as the structuring processes P1 and P2 and the layers 1, 2, 3 in a plurality of strip-shaped, parallel photovoltaic elements separated by the trenches 5 and 7 and connected in series with each other through the recesses 6, present.
- a recess 6 is required approximately every 1.5 millimeters.
- An advantage of this embodiment over the prior art is that less area is needed for the series connection and thus a higher conversion efficiency can be realized.
- the distance between the holes 6 to each other is adjusted so that the total loss caused by the shading, resulting from conduction losses caused by the electrical contact layers 1 and 3 and area losses, caused by the material ablation and interconnection are minimized.
- FIG. 5 shows the production and punctiform series connection of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C to form a functional solar module, in which the structuring of the active semiconductor layers 6 is arranged punctiformly within the meander-shaped structured regions 9 of the first structuring trench 5.
- FIG. 5a shows a plan view of a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic elements in a solar module.
- a detail enlargement shows in each case three mutually parallel strips A, B, C.
- the nomenclature P 1-3 in the figures indicates the approximate position and number of structuring per trench or per dotted semiconductor structure.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed from the first and second th electrical contact layer 1, 3 and the interposed semiconductor layers
- FIG. 5b shows the starting point of the method.
- a first electrical TCO contact layer 1 Transparent Conductive Oxide
- the substrate 4 glass with a base of 100 cm 2 has been selected.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 made of ZnO was deposited thereon.
- a functional layer for improved pattern formation of the ZnO is disposed between the substrate 4 and the ZnO and associated with the substrate (not shown).
- the basis of the embodiment is a 10x10 cm 2 large glass.
- a first electrical contact layer 1 of wet-chemically textured zinc oxide having a thickness of about 800 nm.
- first structuring process P1 material is removed from the first electrical contact layer 1 by laser ablation, so that the surface of the substrate 4 is exposed in the machined regions 5.
- the laser beam is guided meander-shaped over the substrate, so that contact webs 8 are generated within the first electrical contact (FIG. 5 d)).
- the U-shaped bulges have a distance of 1.5 mm.
- This patterning process P1 is performed successively for all the photovoltaic elements A, B, C.
- the laser is guided for this purpose by a relative movement over the surface of the substrate 4. Distance and power are adjusted so that material of layers 1 is removed.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rof ⁇ n, type RSY 2OE THG, with a wavelength of 355 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the material of the contact layer 1.
- An average power of 300 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 15 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 250 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 100 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side through the transparent substrate 4 onto the layer 1 to be ablated.
- the beam has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical, Gaussian intensity distribution, with each pulse producing a circular ablation with a diameter of approximately 35 ⁇ m.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 is separated from one another by the first structuring process P1 up to the substrate 4 by parallel arranged first trenches 5.
- the strip-shaped first electrical contact layers of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are electrically insulated from one another by the trenches 5 on the substrate 4.
- a multiplicity of first trenches 5 for separating the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed in this way (see Fig. 5a: vertical strips in the module on the right).
- the structuring process Pl proceeds by means of computer-aided control.
- the structuring process P1 is repeated as often as photovoltaic elements are to be generated.
- the edge length of the glass substrate 4 is 10 ⁇ 10 cm, approximately 16 trenches 5 arranged in parallel are formed so that a strip A, B or C has a width of approximately 0.5 cm.
- the entire substrate 4 on the side on which the first electrical contact layer 1 is located covered with a microcrystalline pin solar cell 2 made of silicon so that the first electrical contact layer 1 and the trenches 5 covered with the silicon of the layers 2 or are filled (Fig. 5e)).
- the thickness of the microcrystalline p-type n-layer stack 2 as the active semiconductor layer 2 is in this case approximately 1300 nm in total.
- the active semiconductor layers 2 are removed to form punctiform recesses 6 up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer 1 (FIG. 5f)).
- the punctiform recesses 6 are produced in the region of the contact webs 8 (FIG. 5 g)) in order to be able to form punctiform contacts between adjacent photovoltaic elements, in the present case from element A to element B.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rof ⁇ n, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for ablation of the materials of the semiconductor layers 2. Since both the substrate 4 and the first electrical cantakt layer 1 are highly transparent at the selected specific wavelength of 532 nm, then selective removal of the active semiconductor layers is desired 2 guaranteed.
- An energy per laser pulse of about 40 ⁇ J is selected.
- the pulse repetition rate is 533 Hz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm.
- the beam is guided from the substrate side 4 onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical, Gaussian intensity distribution, whereby per pulse a circular ablation with a diameter of approximately 70 ⁇ m results.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are present on the substrate 4, punctiform recesses 6 existing in the later-active semiconductor layers 2 for realizing a punctiform series connection.
- a plurality of openings 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer 1 of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed.
- the structuring process P2 is repeated as many times as photovoltaic elements are present.
- the second electrical contact 3 is disposed on the active semiconductor layer 2.
- a second electrical contact layer 3 a layer system of 80 nm zinc oxide in combination with a 200 nm thick silver layer is chosen.
- the zinc oxide layer is followed by the silver layer (FIG. 5h)).
- the trenches 7, caused by the structuring process P3, are formed such that the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 are rectilinearly removed from the location of the first trenches 5, ie no meander-shaped removal of the layers 2 and 3 takes place instead of.
- the offset of the trenches 7 with respect to the non-meandering regions of the trenches 5 takes place in the direction in which the recesses 6 are not located (FIGS. 5i, j)).
- the offset is approx. 150 ⁇ m.
- the process is performed so that the first electrical contact 1 is exposed.
- the rectilinear trench 7 generates a continuous insulation of the second electrical contact of two adjacent areas A, B. As a result, a short circuit between two adjacent photovoltaic elements A, B is prevented in the following.
- the laser used to remove the material from layers 2 and 3 is an Nd: YVO4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the materials of both layers 2, 3.
- An average power of 410 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 11 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns.
- This structuring process P3 is again performed along the entire strip.
- the structuring process P3 is repeated as often as the structuring processes P1 and P2 and the layers 1, 2, 3 in a plurality of strip-shaped, mutually parallel photovoltaic elements, separated by the trenches 5 and 7 and connected in series with each other through the recesses 6, available.
- a recess 6 is required approximately every 1.5 millimeters.
- An advantage of this embodiment over the prior art is that less area is needed for the series connection and thus a higher conversion efficiency can be realized.
- the distance between the holes 6 to each other is adjusted so that the total loss caused by the shading, resulting from conduction losses caused by the electrical contact layers 1 and 3 and area losses caused by the material ablation and shading are minimized.
- FIG. 6 shows the production and punctiform series connection of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C to form a functional solar module, in which the structuring of the active semiconductor layers 6 is punctiformly arranged within the meander-shaped structured regions 9 of the first structuring trench 5.
- FIG. 6 a shows a plan view of a plurality of strip-shaped photovoltaic elements in a solar module.
- a detail enlargement shows in each case three strips A, B, C arranged parallel to one another.
- the nomenclature Pl-3 in the figures indicates the approximate position and number of structuring per trench or per dotted semiconductor structuring.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed from the first and second electrical contact layers 1, 3 and the semiconductor layers 2 arranged therebetween.
- FIG. 6b shows the starting point of the method.
- a first electrical TCO contact layer 1 Transparent Conductive Oxide
- the substrate 4 glass with a base of 100 cm 2 has been selected.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 made of ZnO was deposited thereon.
- a functional layer for improved pattern formation of the ZnO is disposed between the substrate 4 and the ZnO and associated with the substrate (not shown).
- the basis of the exemplary embodiment is a 10x10 cm 2 large glass pane.
- a first electrical contact layer 1 of wet-chemically textured zinc oxide having a thickness of about 800 nm.
- first structuring process P1 material is removed from the first electrical contact layer 1 by laser ablation, so that the surface of the substrate 4 is exposed in the machined regions 5.
- the laser beam is guided meander-shaped over the substrate, so that contact webs 8 are generated within the first electrical contact (FIG. 6 d)).
- the U-shaped bulges have a distance of 1.5 mm.
- This structuring process Pl is successively for all photovoltaic elements A, B, C performed.
- the laser is guided for this purpose by a relative movement over the surface of the substrate 4. Distance and power are adjusted so that material of layers 1 is removed.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE THG, with a wavelength of 355 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the material of the contact layer 1.
- An average power of 300 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 15 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 250 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 100 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side through the transparent substrate 4 onto the layer 1 to be ablated.
- the focused beam in this case has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetric, Gaussian intensity distribution, with each pulse results in a circular ablation with a diameter of about 35 microns.
- the first electrical contact layer 1 is separated from one another by the first structuring process P1 up to the substrate 4 by parallel arranged first trenches 5.
- the strip-shaped first electrical contact layers of the photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are electrically insulated from one another by the trenches 5 on the substrate 4.
- a plurality of first trenches 5 for separating the photovoltaic elements A, B, C are formed in this way (see Fig. 6a: vertical strips in the module on the right).
- the structuring process Pl proceeds by means of computer-aided control.
- the structuring process P 1 is repeated as often as photovoltaic elements are to be generated.
- the edge length of the glass substrate 4 is 10 ⁇ 10 cm, approximately 16 trenches 5 arranged in parallel are formed so that a strip A, B or C has a width of approximately 0.5 cm.
- the entire substrate 4 is covered on the side on which the first electrical contact layer 1 is located, with a microcrystalline pin solar cell 2 made of silicon such that the first electrical contact layer 1 and the trenches 5 with the silicon. around the layers 2 are covered (Fig. 6e)).
- the thickness of the microcrystalline pi n layer stack 2 as the active semiconductor layer 2 here amounts to a total of about 1300 nm.
- the active semiconductor layers 2 are removed to form punctiform recesses 6 up to the surface of the first electrical contact layer 1 (FIG. 6f)).
- the punctiform recesses 6 are produced in the region of the contact webs 8 (FIG. 6g)) in order to be able to form punctiform contacts between adjacent photovoltaic elements, in the present case from element A to element B.
- the laser used is a Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for ablation of the materials of the semiconductor layers 2. Since both the substrate 4 and the first electrical cantakt layer 1 are highly transparent at the selected specific wavelength of 532 nm, then selective removal of the active semiconductor layers is desired 2 guaranteed.
- An energy per laser pulse of about 40 ⁇ J is selected.
- the pulse repetition rate is 533 Hz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s. As a result, a distance between the holes is achieved by 1.5 millimeters.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate 4 with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm.
- the beam is guided from the substrate side 4 onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam has a nearly 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical, Gaussian intensity distribution, whereby per pulse a circular ablation with a diameter of approximately 70 ⁇ m results.
- the strip-shaped photovoltaic elements A, B, C arranged in parallel are present on the substrate 4, punctiform recesses 6 existing in the later-active semiconductor layers 2 for realizing a punctiform series connection.
- a multiplicity of openings 6 for contacting the first electrical contact layer 1 of the photovoltaic cell voltaic elements A, B, C are thus formed.
- the structuring process P2 is repeated as many times as photovoltaic elements are present.
- the second electrical contact 3 is disposed on the active semiconductor layer 2.
- a second electrical contact layer 3 a layer system of 80 nm zinc oxide in combination with a 200 nm thick silver layer is chosen.
- the zinc oxide layer is followed by the silver layer (FIG. 6h)).
- the trenches 7 caused by the patterning process P3 are formed such that the second electrical contact layer 3 and the underlying active semiconductor layers 2 are rectilinearly offset from the location of the first trenches 5, that is, the first trenches 5. H. there is no meandering removal of the layers 2 and 3 instead. Furthermore, the trenches 7 remove the second electrical contact 3 and the semiconductor layer 2 in the area of the contact webs 8 and in the trenches 5 above and below the contact webs 8 (FIG. 6iJ)). The offset of the trenches 7 with respect to the non-meandering regions of the trenches 5 takes place in the direction in which the recesses 6 are located.
- the offset is selected so that the trenches 7 are located between the non-meandering regions of the trenches 5 and the recesses 6.
- the rectilinear trench 7 produced a continuous insulation of the second electrical contact of two adjacent regions A, B. As a result, a short circuit of two adjacent photovoltaic elements A, B is prevented in the following.
- the laser used to remove the material from layers 2 and 3 is an Nd: YVO 4 laser from Rofin, type RSY 2OE SHG.
- the wavelength of the laser is 532 nm. This wavelength is specific for the removal of the materials of both layers 2, 3.
- An average power of 410 mW is selected at a pulse repetition rate of 11 kHz.
- the speed of the relative movement between laser beam and substrate is 800 mm / s.
- the pulse duration of the individual pulses is approx. 13 ns.
- the laser radiation is focused onto the layer side of the substrate with the aid of a focusing unit with a focal length of 300 mm. In this case, the beam is conducted from the substrate side onto the layer to be ablated through the transparent substrate 4.
- the focused beam has a close to 2-dimensional, rotationally symmetrical, Gaussian intensity distribution, resulting per pulse, a circular ablation with a diameter of about 70 microns.
- This structuring process P3 is again performed along the entire strip.
- the structuring process P3 is repeated as often as the structuring processes P1 and P2 and until the layers 1, 2, 3 in a plurality of strip-shaped, mutually parallel photovoltaic elements, separated by the trenches 5 and 7 and connected in series with each other through the recesses. 6 , present.
- a recess 6 is required approximately every 1.5 millimeters.
- An advantage of this embodiment over the prior art is that less area is needed for the series connection and thus a higher conversion efficiency can be realized.
- the distance between the holes 6 to each other is adjusted so that the total losses caused by the interconnection, resulting from conductive losses caused by the electrical contact layers 1 and 3 and surface losses caused by the material ablation and interconnection are minimized.
- all method steps in the exemplary embodiments are to be considered in a nonlimiting manner.
- the dimensions of the trenches and the contact points as well as the distances between the trenches and between the points and between trenches and points, the layer materials of the layers of the photovoltaic elements as such and also the composition of the contact material should not limit the invention.
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