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Development and Characterisation of Industrial Bifacial Pv Modules with Ultra- Thin Screen-Printed Solar Cells 22nd EUPVSEC Milan 3-7 Sept 2007 DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISATION OF INDUSTRIAL BIFACIAL PV MODULES WITH ULTRA- THIN SCREEN-PRINTED SOLAR CELLS P. Sánchez-Friera1, B. Lalaguna1, D. Montiel1, J. Gil1, L.J. Caballero1, J. Alonso1, M. Piliougine2, M. Sidrach de Carmona2 1 Isofotón SA, Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía, Severo Ochoa 50, Málaga 29590, Spain. Tel: +34 951233500, Fax: +34 951233212, E-mail: [email protected] 2 Dpto. de Física Aplicada II, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, Málaga 29071, Spain. ABSTRACT: In recent years there has been a growing interest in bifacial cells and modules and several research groups have dedicated efforts to the development of these technologies. The motivation behind is the large energy production gain that can be achieved with these modules, which is in the range 5-20% depending on the bifaciality of the cells and the optimization of the system installation. This paper summarizes the work-programme carried out at Isofotón to develop a suitable technology for the production of industrial bifacial PV modules with ultra-thin screen-printed bifacial cells. A full characterization of the prototypes fabricated in terms of energy yield and reliability is also reported. Keywords: bifacial, module manufacturing, interconnection. 1 INTRODUCTION experimentally, by monitoring the outdoors IV curves of a bifacial module with solar radiation reaching both sides In recent years there has been a growing interest in of the module (Bif) and by covering alternatively each bifacial cells and modules and several research groups side, with irradiance only on the front (MF) and only on have dedicated efforts to the development of these the back-side (MB). As Fig. 1 shows, the module behaves technologies [1-3]. The motivation behind is the large linearly, which implies that the cell sorting can be done energy production gain that can be achieved with these by measuring first the front side of the bifacial cell and modules, which is in the range 5-20% depending on the then the rear. bifaciality of the cells and the optimisation of the system A model of the bifacial cell and the interconnected installation. circuit was developed using SPICE. Through a sensibility A technology for the production of industrial bifacial analysis on the module output power, it was shown that PV modules with ultra-thin screen-printed bifacial cells including the cell bifaciality (defined as the ratio of Isc-back has been developed at Isofotón. The bifacial solar cells / Isc-front) in the sorting parameters set is sufficient for an have an internal structure with a phosphorus diffused accurate classification of the bifacial cells. emitter in their front side, and can present two different 4 configurations: a local rear contact with or without a boron doped emitter. The B doping source is deposited by screen-printing and continuously diffused in a belt 3 furnace. PECVD silicon nitride is used in both sides to M F create the AR coating. ) A 2 M B ( This paper focuses on the module developments, I M F+M B related to the following production steps: B IF • Bifacial cell sorting 1 • Interconnection of ultra-thin bifacial cells (<150 m) • Lamination with transparent polymeric backsheet and 0 in-laminate ultra-flat by-pass diodes. 0,7 0,8 0,9 1 1,1 Finally, the prototypes constructed have been Glo bal rad (kW/m2) characterized in terms of reliability and energy yield. Figure 1: Short-circuit current of a bifacial module 2 MODULE MANUFACTURING PROCESS measured by covering the back-side (MF), covering the front-side (MB) and in bifacial configuration (BIF). The 2.1 Bifacial cell sorting measured data show the linearity of the short-circuit The first step in the module manufacturing process is current. the sorting of the cells according to their electrical parameters. In standard solar simulators only the front 2.2 Cell interconnection side of the solar cell receives radiation. A bifacial cell, The bifacial solar cells under development are however, operates with radiation reaching both surfaces. multicrystalline 125x125 mm and with thicknesses in the A realistic measurement of a bifacial cell should in range 100-150 m. principle involve two lamps facing the front and back The cell interconnection was carried out using a sides of the cell. This implies the modification of the snap-cure conductive adhesive which can lower the standard cell sorting equipment. operating temperature down to 100ºC, with processing Based on the structure of the bifacial cell, however, it times comparable to soldering. This reduces drastically is expected that the solar cell behaves linearly, ie the the stress over the cell, as the cell bow measurements current measured with irradiance on both sides is equal to illustrate. These measurements (shown in Fig. 2) are the current from the front only plus the current from the performed after attaching the interconnecting tabs only rear side only. This hypothesis was confirmed on one side of the cell, to avoid compensation of the 22nd EUPVSEC Milan 3-7 Sept 2007 bending forces on each side of the cell. The cells with glued tabs present always a lower bow than the soldered a) b) cells, as summarized in Table I. This effect is especially important for the thinnest cells. Table I: One-side bow reduction of cells with glued ribbons with respect to cells with SnPbAg soldered ribbons. Wafer thickness Bow reduction Figure 3: Visual and infrared images of in-laminate by- (m) (%) pass diode, after forcing a current of 10 A through the 105-115 74% diode for a period of 1 hour. 180-190 63% The other new component in the module, the ETFE 210-220 37% film, was also submitted to reliability testing. It was 250-260 34% introduced in a UV chamber for a period of 600h, equivalent to 30kWh/m2 of UV radiation received. As shown in Fig. 4 the transmission curves measured before a) b) and after the test are almost identical. There was also no variation in the measurements after 1000h of damp-heat exposure at 85ºC and 85% relative humidity. 100 80 60 ) % Figure 2: 110m thick solar cells interconnected a) by ( SnPbAg soldering and b) with conductive adhesive. T 40 Initial 30 kWh/m2 20 2.3 Module lamination with ultra-flat by-pass diodes 0 In a bifacial module it is convenient to avoid the use 0 500 1000 1500 of a standard junction box, as this would imply one cell Wavelength (nm) less in the module to avoid undesirable shadowing effects. This in turn would increase the area per Wp in Figure 4: Transmission of ETFE backsheet before and the module. One way to circumvent this problem is the after receiving 30kWh/m2 of UV radiation. The use of by-pass diodes of small size, that can be laminated variations are within the measurement tolerances. on the edge of the module. A Schottky 10A diode, with only 1mm thickness and In order to test the reliability of the conductive less than 5mm width, was selected as ideal candidate for adhesives used for the cell interconnection, several this application. Module samples were laminated with module prototypes were built with 200m monofacial these by-pass diodes, using EVA and a transparent cells. The samples were submitted to accelerated polymeric backsheet of excellent transmittance, based on degradation tests. They were initially placed in a damp- ETFE. heat chamber at 85ºC with 85% relative humidity for 1200 hours, and subsequently exposed to thermal cycles 3 MODULE RELIABILITY of 6 hours between -40ºC and 85ºC, up to a total of 400 cycles. The bypass-diode thermal test described in IEC61215 2nd ed. was conducted in order to assess the thermal Table II: Module parameters of a module prototype built behaviour and long-term reliability. For a test current of with conductive adhesives and a reference module, after 6A the calculated junction temperature of the diode was 1200 hours of damp-heat (DH) exposure and 200/400 96ºC, well below the maximum value rated by the thermal cycles (TC). manufacturer, and considered to be safe for the module encapsulation material. CA Reference The test current was then increased up to 10A during a period of one hour. After this the diode was still FF (%) P (W) ∆P (%) FF (%) P (W) ∆P (%) operational and there was no damage observed in the Initial 74,8% 80,5 0,0% 74,8% 79,5 0,0% module lamination materials. The maximum temperature 1200 DH 74,8% 79,4 -1,3% 74,6% 77,6 -2,4% recorded on the module surface with an infrared camera 200 TC 72,1% 78,2 -2,8% was 165ºC, as shown in Fig. 3. From this value the 400 TC 71,6% 75,6 -6,2% 73,4% 76,6 -3,7% calculated diode junction temperature was still below that specified by the manufacturer. These results indicate the suitability of this type of ultra-flat by-pass diodes for PV The module interconnected with CA satisfied the module manufacturing. requirements of IEC61215 with a power decay under 5% for 200TC. It had however a slightly larger decay for the 22nd EUPVSEC Milan 3-7 Sept 2007 400TC. This could be related to the dispensing and installation, leading to a direct benefit on the electricity curing process of the adhesive which was not fully production of the bifacial modules. optimized at the time of manufacturing these samples. Recent testing on new samples produced in Ref. [4] have 0,30 shown successful results up to 500TC. Vertical wall No wall 4 OUTDOORS MONITORING 0,28 ) % ( Several bifacial module prototypes were installed in 0,25 o d an outdoor monitoring station in order to i) analyse the e b operating temperature of the bifacial modules compared l 0,23 A to the monofacial, ii) optimize of the albedo conditions to maximize the output power, and iii) compare the energy 0,20 yield of bifacial and monofacial modules.
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