The solar industry has dragged its heels on the issue of silver-dependence for cell metallization, but China’s Jiangsu ...

Printing solar cells involves suspending advanced solar materials called perovskite in ink. The ink can then be printed onto long continuous rolls of flexible film made of plastic that conducts ...

Developed by researchers in China, the TOPCon solar cell was screen printed with a paste made of silver and aluminum on the front side and an aluminum-only paste on the rear side. They added ...

The process uses screen printing techniques that rely on squeegeeing ... That film then gets pressed onto preheated solar cells. The elevated temperatures make the pattern stick on the cell ...