Dopant ink composition and method of fabricating a solar cell there from

Loscutoff, Paul; Wu, Kahn; Molesa, Steven Edward

Title: Dopant ink composition and method of fabricating a solar cell there from

Patent · Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1177125

Loscutoff, Paul; Wu, Kahn; Molesa, Steven Edward

Dopant ink compositions and methods of fabricating solar cells there from are described. A dopant ink composition may include a cross-linkable matrix precursor, a bound dopant species, and a solvent. A method of fabricating a solar cell may include delivering a dopant ink composition to a region above a substrate. The dopant ink composition includes a cross-linkable matrix precursor, a bound dopant species, and a solvent. The method also includes baking the dopant ink composition to remove a substantial portion of the solvent of the dopant ink composition, curing the baked dopant ink composition to cross-link a substantial portion of the cross-linkable matrix precursor of the dopant ink composition, and driving dopants from the cured dopant ink composition toward the substrate.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FC36-07GO17043

Assignee:: SunPower Corporation (San Jose, CA)

Patent Number(s):: 8,992,803

Application Number:: 13/250,215

OSTI ID:: 1177125

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2011 Sep 30

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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