The effect of baking conditions on the effective contact areas of screen-printed silver layer on silicon substrate

Sun, Tietun, Miao, Jianmin, Lin, Rongming and Fu, Yong Qing (2005) The effect of baking conditions on the effective contact areas of screen-printed silver layer on silicon substrate. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 85 (1). pp. 73-83. ISSN 0927 0248

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Abstract

In this paper, Ag-based paste was screen-printed on the polished as well as on the textured p-type (100) single crystalline silicon wafers. Three types of baking processes were studied: the tube furnace, the belt furnace and the hot plate baking. The effective contact areas of Ag/Si system were measured with a novel method, namely metal insulator semiconductor structure measurement. The results show that after baking on the hot plate at 400°C for 5 min, the size and number of pores in the Ag film layer as well as at the interface between silver layer and silicon decreases significantly, the effective contact area also increases about 20%, particularly on the textured silicon substrate.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Solar cells; Firing; Screen-printing; Ag paste material
Subjects:	F200 Materials Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2015 16:58
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:06
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/21860

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