Photovoltaic Manufacturing

1 Chapter 2Table 2.1. Micrographs of texturing for different concentrations (100%, 50%, and...Table 2.2. Requirements and advantages of the candidates to substitute IPA.

2 Chapter 4Table 4.1. Detection and quantification limits calculated according to [66] of t...Table 4.2. DOE for the cleaning of textured wafers (slurry/diamond wire sawed).

3 Chapter 5Table 5.1. Semi-quantitative results of a TD-GC-MS analysis of organic surface c...

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Cover image: Top figures: RENA Technologies GmbH – BatchTex machine for solar wafer texturing Bottom row left: Technological Institute of Microelectronics (TiM), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain

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The last two decades were groundbreaking for photovoltaic (PV) technology. Countless researchers, engineers, technicians, politicians, and individuals all over the world contributed with their work and enthusiasm to the progress of this field. In this time, silicon PV cells increased their efficiency to 26.1% [1], being close to their theoretical limit for real cells of 29.8% [2]. PV technologies such as multijunction solar cells achieved a maximum of 39.2% efficiency in nonconcentrated applications [1], and new emerging technologies such as perovskites evolved. Figures 1and 2visualize the impressive progress in photovoltaics, depicting the best research cell efficiencies ( Figure 1) and the champion module efficiencies ( Figure 2). Both figures start with a few technologies, remarkable achievements, and, especially in the case of modules, a somewhat steady progress. The first cell type ever recorded in these data, an a:Si:H cell, evolved from 2.4% efficiency in 1976 to 14.1%. However, shortly around the year 2000, 10 new photovoltaic technologies evolved, increasing the record PV efficiency from 31.9% in 2000 by more than 50% to 47.1%. Not only were 40% of the technologies of today developed during the last two decades but also their efficiency trends are improving much steeper than ever before in the PV history.