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This paper reviews the different developments in the field of multicrystalline silicon solar cell fabrication. The trends in the manufacturing steps are discussed. The importance of achieving high cell conversion efficiencies with a limited number of high throughput and environmentally benign operations is emphasized. Large area industrial silicon cells with efficiencies in the 16 to 17% range can be expected in the year 2000. Manufacturing cost projections for that year vary considerably between the different manufacturers with estimations going from 0.75 to 2 ecu per Watt. About 30% of the costs are caused by the cell fabrication. It can be expected that different processing technologies will be used in parallel.
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Mertens, R.P. (1991). Progress in the Manufacturing of Production-Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. In: Luque, A., Sala, G., Palz, W., Dos Santos, G., Helm, P. (eds) Tenth E.C. Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3622-8_61
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