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TCO for passivated contacts

Transparent conductive oxide layers are commonly used in some forms of thin-film PV manufacturing, and in flat panel production. A new project, funded by Solar-Era.Net, is investigating its use in passivated contact crystalline silicon solar cell production. Lennart de Vreede and Thomas Aukes Solmates, a pulsed laser deposition equipment developer located in the Netherlands, outline the project.

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pv magazine

25 May 2020

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In September 2019, the CUSTCO project got to work. The Cost-efficient, Up-scalable and Stable Transparent Conductive Oxides (CUSTCO) group of academic partners include Fraunhofer ISE, the University of Twente, and CNRS LPICM-Ecole Polytechnique. Its industrial partners are Sindlhauser Materials, Indeotec and Solmates. The project’s purpose: to explore how Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCO) can be deployed …

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