Solar cell panels and method of fabricating same

US10693025B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Harold J. Hovel · Katonah, US
• Rainer Krause · Hochheim, DE
• Xiaoyan Shao · Yorktown Heights, US
• Steven E. Steen · Titicus, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 10, 2017
• Grant date: Jun 23, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 10, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/50

Abstract

A solar cell panel with a bottom cover plate and an electrically conductive bus bar. A top cover plate having at least one electrically conductive land in communication with a bottom surface of the top cover plate. The land having a height extending from the bottom surface of the top cover plate. An array of rows and columns of solar cell chips lying between the bottom cover plate and the top cover plate. Each solar cell chip of the array having an anode adjacent to a top surface and a cathode adjacent to a bottom surface. The bus bar in electrical communication with each cathode of each solar cell chip of the array. Each land in electrical contact with each anode of a solar cell chip of the array. An opening formed between adjacent lands wherein the opening extends at least the height of the lands.