Shrader E. – TechConnect Briefs

Co-Extrusion Printing for Low Cost and High Performance Energy Devices

Shrader E., Cobb C., PARC, a Xerox company, US

The method of co-extrusion of dissimilar materials has been developed at the PARC, a Xerox Company, to successfully produce high aspect ratio structures for solar cell gridlines. In the solar application, the process is stable [...]

Improvement of Silicon Solar Cell Metallization with Printed Metal Nanoparticle Inks

Xu B., Limb S., Rodkin A., Shrader E., Garner S., PARC, a Xerox company, US

The process and quality of metallization greatly affects the performance and cost of solar cells. Screen printing of silver paste and fire-through of the silicon nitride antireflection layer is the most widely used method for [...]