Method of removing the effects of electrical shorts and shunts created during the fabrication process of a solar cell

Patent · 31 December 1978

OSTI ID:863414

Nostrand, Gerald E ^[1]; Hanak, Joseph J ^[2]

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1. Jamesburg, NJ
2. Lawrenceville, NJ

A method of removing the effects of electrical shorts and shunts created during the fabrication process and improving the performance of a solar cell with a thick film cermet electrode opposite to the incident surface by applying a reverse bias voltage of sufficient magnitude to burn out the electrical shorts and shunts but less than the break down voltage of the solar cell.

• Research Organization: RCA Labs., Princeton, NJ (USA)
• Assignee: RCA Corporation (New York, NY)
• Patent Number(s): US 4166918
• OSTI ID: 863414
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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