Featured in A safe pair of hands – 08-2014

Bye-bye busbars

Metallization technology: The last few months have seen renewed interest in technologies to replace the busbars on crystalline silicon solar PV cells with new forms of interconnection, all based on copper mesh. But many questions remain about this technology.

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Christian Roselund

11 Aug 2014

In late June 2014, Meyer Burger announced an order to supply a solar PV cell factory in Poland with metallization and cell interconnection equipment. That would have been a fairly standard order, except that the equipment which Meyer Burger is supplying will not print metal busbars, but rather deposit a grid of copper wires embedded …

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