Long & Medium Term Research: Simplified Fabrication Methodsfor Silicon Concentrator Solar Cells

长期中期研究：简化制造方法 硅聚光太阳能电池 该奖项是根据长期计划提出的。 &在国外卓越中心的中期研究。 的 该计划旨在使美国科学家和工程师能够 在国外的研究机构进行长期研究， 证明卓越。 奖项提供了机会， 开展联合研究，以及使用独特或复杂的 实验设施、专业知识和实验条件 国外 这个奖项是为了奖励理查德·M.斯旺森 将支持为期12个月的博士后研究访问， Richard R.博士印第安纳州国王大学教授 Martin A.电气工程的绿色和斯图尔特温哈姆 新南威尔士大学，肯辛顿， 澳大利亚 研究人员计划将重点放在 硅聚光太阳能电池，主要是 两面接触，专为集中注意力而设计 比例在20到100之间。 因为这个浓度范围 相对较低，并且对于给定的 功率输出相应较高，本研究将 强调简化制造程序， 尽可能地降低单位电池面积的成本。 为 例如，他们将探索电化学的使用 作为真空沉积的替代方法的沉积金属化 金属，并研究设计，不需要 一个水平线与另一个水平线对齐，以及 通过直接在其上印刷图案而制造的电池， 细胞，从而消除了对光敏 抗拒 本研究的目的是寻找方法， 这种高通量方法可以被使用， 将电池效率保持在大于约100 μ g/L的水平， 90%的价值时获得的复杂，微电子 使用制造技术。 研究人员还将 制造设计用于约5的浓度比的电池。 由于硅衬底的成本变得非常昂贵， 在这方面，系统总成本的很大一部分 浓度比，使用单晶，薄膜 将探索用于这种电池的硅。 授标建议提供资金， 适当的，国际旅行，出国当地旅行， 津贴，家属津贴（如适用）和公寓 美国本土机构的行政津贴为250美元。

Long & Medium Term Research: Simplified Fabrication Methods for Silicon Concentrator Solar Cells. This award recommendation is made under the Program for Long & Medium-Term Research at Foreign Centers of Excellence. The program seeks to enable U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct long-term research abroad at research institutions of proven excellence. Awards provide opportunities for the conduct of joint research, and the use of unique or compli- mentary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions in foreign countries. This award for a proposal sponsored by Dr. Richard M. Swanson will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Richard R. King of Indiana University with Professors Martin A. Green and Stuart Wenham of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia. The researchers plan to focus on the area of silicon concentrator solar cells, primarily of the type contacted on both sides, and designed for concentration ratios between 20 and 100. Because this concentration range is relatively low, and the required cell area for a given power output is correspondingly high, this research will emphasize simplified fabrication procedures in order to reduce the cost per unit cell area as much as possible. For instance, they will explore the use of electrochemically deposited metallization as an alternative to vacuum deposition of metal, and investigate designs which do not require alignment of one photolithographic level to another, and cells which are fabricated by printing patterns directly on the cell, thus eliminating the need for photosensitive resists. The goal of this research is to find the ways in which such high-throughput processes can be used while maintaining the cell efficiency at a level greater than about 90% of the value obtained when complex, microelectronics fabrication techniques are used. The researchers also will fabricate cells designed for concentration ratios of about 5. Since the cost of the silicon substrate becomes a very significant fraction of the total system cost in this concentration ratio, the use of monocrystalline, thin-film silicon for this type of cell will be explored. The award recommendation provides funds to cover, as appropriate, international travel, local travel abroad, stipend, dependents' allowance if applicable, and a flat administrative allowance of $250 for the U.S. home institution.