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NREL, SLAC Scientists Pinpoint Solar Cell Manufacturing Process

The process involves a silver paste screen-printed onto a silicon wafer and then quickly fired in a belt furnace.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to pinpoint for the first time what happens during a key manufacturing process of silicon solar cells.   Their paper, “The formation mechanism for printed silver-contacts for silicon solar cells,” appears in the journal Nature Communications. The paper was co-authored by NREL’s Jeremy Fields and SLAC’s Imteyaz Ahmad, and the principal investigators on the pr...

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