Print Email Facebook Twitter Mechanical Aspects of Wafer-Based Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Title Mechanical Aspects of Wafer-Based Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Author Geertsma, W.S. Contributor Janssen, M. (mentor) Popovich, V.A. (mentor) Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Materials Science & Engineering Programme Metals Processing, Microstructure and Properties Date 2013-09-27 Abstract The mechanical aspects of wafer-based crystalline silicon solar cells were investigated for cell bowing and mechanical strength. The cell bowing was investigated as a result of a silver or aluminium metallization layer applied for different production parameters. The residual stresses were calculated using a finite element (FE) model validated with experimentally obtained results. The mechanical strength was measured using a ring-on-ring bending test for silicon wafers and cells with a silver or aluminium metallization layer produced using different production parameters. The fracture stress was calculated using a FE model, which was validated using digital image correlation (DIC) measurements. Subject solar cellmetallizationring-on-ringwafer-basedDICFE To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:97732f38-4856-4ef0-927e-a36c85c2e3cb Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2013 Geertsma, W.S. Files PDF Master_Thesis_Wouter_Geertsma.pdf 13.94 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:97732f38-4856-4ef0-927e-a36c85c2e3cb/datastream/OBJ/view