Commercializatzon of thick film solar cells. Quarterly progress report, September 21, 1979-December 31, 1979

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5428996· OSTI ID:5428996

McDonald, G. D.; Goodman, G.

Starting materials for the preparation of thick film cadmium sulfide and cadmium telluride solar cells have been comminuted. Initial trial films of cadmium sulfide showed that during the next phase of this work, the printing of films, one of the major problem areas will be to obtain sufficient reflow in the printed films to remove the screen-caused variation in film thickness. The thin areas corresponding to the screen pattern caused pinholes to form in the fired parts.

• Research Organization: Globe-Union, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EG-77-C-01-4042
• OSTI ID: 5428996
• Report Number(s): DSE-4042-T17
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
CADMIUM SULFIDE SOLAR CELLS
FABRICATION
CADMIUM SULFIDES
SCREEN PRINTING
CADMIUM TELLURIDE SOLAR CELLS
CADMIUM TELLURIDES
EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY
FILMS
GLASS
MILLING
PARTICLE SIZE
POWDERS
SUBSTRATES
CADMIUM COMPOUNDS
CHALCOGENIDES
DEPOSITION
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
EQUIPMENT
INORGANIC PHOSPHORS
MACHINING
PHOSPHORS
PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS
PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS
SIZE
SOLAR CELLS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SPECTROSCOPY
SULFIDES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SURFACE COATING
TELLURIDES
TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS
140501* - Solar Energy Conversion- Photovoltaic Conversion
360601 - Other Materials- Preparation & Manufacture