PVMaT Improvements in the BP Solar Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing Technology: Final Subcontract Report, 4 May 1998 - 30 November 2001

    Research output: NRELSubcontract Report

    Abstract

    This report describes the advancement of BP Solar PV manufacturing technologies in order to design and implement a process that produces polycrystalline silicon PV modules that can be sold profitably for $2.00 per peak watt or less and that increases the production capacity of the Frederick plant to at least 25 megawatts per year.
    Original languageAmerican English
    Number of pages106
    StatePublished - 2002

    Bibliographical note

    Work performed by BP Solar, Frederick, Maryland

    NREL Publication Number

    • NREL/SR-520-32066

    Keywords

    • acoustic emissions-based
    • anti-reflection coating
    • ellipsometry
    • etched wafer
    • hemispherical spectral reflectance
    • module lamination
    • moisture vapor transmission rate
    • optical scattering
    • polycrystalline silicon
    • PV
    • PVMAT
    • secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)
    • short circuit current (ISC)
    • solidification casting process
    • thick film paste

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