Composition for solar cell electrodes and electrode fabricated using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9818889-B2
Application number	US-201314107489-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2013
Priority date	Dec 29, 2012
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

A composition for solar cell electrodes, a solar cell electrode prepared from the composition, a solar cell, and a method of manufacturing the same, the composition including silver powder; silver iodide; glass frit; and an organic vehicle, wherein the silver iodide is present in an amount of about 0.1 wt % to about 30 wt %, based on a total weight of the composition.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A composition for solar cell electrodes, the composition comprising:
silver powder;
silver iodide;
glass frit, the glass frit including a first glass frit having a glass transition point ranging from 200° C. to 350° C. and a second glass fit having a glass transition point of more than 350° C. and less than or equal to 550° C., a weight ratio of the first glass frit to the second glass fit ranging from about 1:0.2 to about 1:1; and
an organic vehicle, wherein:
the silver iodide is present in an amount of about 0.5 wt % to about 10 wt %, based on a total weight of the composition.

2. The composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the composition includes:
about 60 wt % to about 95 wt % of the silver powder,
the about 0.5 wt % to about 10 wt % of the silver iodide,
about 0.5 wt % to about 20 wt % of the glass fit, and
about 1 wt % to about 30 wt % of the organic vehicle.

3. The composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the glass frit includes one or more of zinc oxide-silicon oxide (ZnO—SiO 2 ), zinc oxide-boron oxide-silicon oxide (ZnO—B 2 O 3 —SiO 2 ), zinc oxide-boron oxide-silicon oxide-aluminum oxide (ZnO— B 2 O 3 —SiO 2 —Al 2 O 3 ), bismuth oxide (Bi 2 O 3 ), bismuth oxide-silicon oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —SiO 2 ), bismuth oxide-boron oxide-silicon oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —B 2 O 3 —SiO 2 ), bismuth oxide-boron oxide-silicon oxide-aluminum oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —B 2 O 3 —SiO 2 —Al 2 O 3 ), bismuth oxide-zinc oxide-boron oxide-silicon oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —ZnO—B 2 O 3 —SiO 2 ), bismuth oxide-zinc oxide-boron oxide-silicon oxide-aluminum oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —ZnO—B 2 O 3 —SiO 2 —Al 2 O 3 ), lead oxide (PbO), lead oxide-tellurium oxide (PbO—TeO 2 ), lead oxide-tellurium oxide-silicon oxide (PbO—TeO 2 —SiO 2 ), lead oxide-tellurium oxide-lithium oxide (PbO—TeO 2 —Li 2 O), bismuth oxide-tellurium oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —TeO 2 ), bismuth oxide-tellurium oxide-silicon oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —TeO 2 —SiO 2 ), bismuth oxide-tellurium oxide-lithium oxide (Bi 2 O 3 —TeO 2 —Li 2 O), tellurium oxide (TeO 2 ), or tellurium oxide-zinc oxide (TeO 2 —ZnO) glass frits.

4. The composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the glass fit has an average particle diameter D50 of about 0.1 μm to about 10 μm.

5. The composition as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising one or more of a dispersant, a thixotropic agent, a plasticizer, a viscosity stabilizer, an anti-foaming agent, a pigment, a UV stabilizer, an antioxidant, or a coupling agent.

6. A solar cell electrode prepared from the composition for solar cell electrodes as claimed in claim 1 .

7. A method of manufacturing a solar cell, the method comprising forming an electrode on a semiconductor substrate, forming the electrode including:
applying the composition as claimed in claim 1 on the substrate,
patterning the applied composition, and
baking the semiconductor substrate having the patterned composition thereon.

8. A solar cell manufactured according to the method as claimed in claim 7 .

9. A solar cell having an electrode, the electrode being manufactured using the composition as claimed in claim 1 .

10. The composition as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the composition has a baking temperature of 400° C. to 950° C.

Assignees

• Park Sang Hee
• Kim Tae Joon
• Song Hun Gyu
• Cheil Ind Inc

Inventors

• Park Sang Hee
• Kim Tae Joon
• Song Hun Gyu

Classifications

• C03C8/18

  containing free metals · CPC title

• C03C8/22

  containing two or more distinct frits having different compositions · CPC title

• H01B1/16

  the conductive material comprising metals or alloys · CPC title

• Y02E10/50

  Photovoltaic [PV] energy · CPC title

• H01L31/022425 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic