CN212571016U

CN212571016U - Back contact battery and battery pack

Info

Publication number: CN212571016U
Application number: CN202021320576.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 靳玉鹏; 李华
Original assignee: Taizhou Lerri Solar Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Taizhou Longi Solar Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-07-07
Filing date: 2020-07-07
Publication date: 2021-02-19
Anticipated expiration: 2030-07-07

Abstract

The utility model provides a back of body contact battery and battery pack relates to the photovoltaic technology field. The back contact battery includes: a silicon substrate; the silicon substrate comprises at least two effective areas and an open area positioned between the adjacent effective areas; the doping layer is formed on a backlight surface of an effective area in the silicon substrate and is disconnected at a position corresponding to the open area; the doping layer comprises a first doping region and a second doping region which are opposite in doping type; the first electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the first doping area; the second electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the second doping area; the back contact battery is divided into at least two sub-battery units through an open area; and the interconnection piece is positioned outside the backlight surfaces of the first doped region and the second doped region and is in conductive connection with the first electrode of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode of the adjacent sub-battery unit. The efficiency loss caused by passivation loss is reduced. Meanwhile, the internal resistance loss is reduced, the alignment process in the internal series connection process is simple, and the fragment rate is low.

Description

Back contact battery and battery pack

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of photovoltaic technology, especially, relate to a back of body contact battery and battery pack.

Background

The back contact battery has the advantages that the electrodes are arranged on the backlight surface, the light facing surface of the back contact battery is not provided with the electrodes, the shading is reduced, the short-circuit current of the battery is effectively increased, the energy conversion efficiency is improved, the back contact battery is more attractive, and the application prospect is wide.

The passivation performance and internal resistance loss of the back contact cell have a large influence on the output power of the back contact cell or module. Generally, the better the passivation performance, the higher the output power, and the lower the internal resistance loss, the higher the output power.

However, the conventional back contact battery generally has the problems of poor passivation performance and large internal resistance loss.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model provides a back of body contact battery and battery pack aims at solving current back of body contact battery and has the problem that passivation performance is poor, internal resistance loss is big usually.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a back contact battery, comprising:

a silicon substrate; the silicon substrate comprises at least two effective areas and an open area positioned between the adjacent effective areas;

the doping layer is formed on a backlight surface of an effective area in the silicon substrate and is disconnected at a position corresponding to the open area; the doping layer comprises a first doping region and a second doping region which are opposite in doping type;

the first electrode is formed on a backlight surface of the first doping area;

the second electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the second doping area;

the back contact battery is divided into at least two sub-battery units through the open area, and each sub-battery unit is a part of the back contact battery corresponding to one effective area;

the back contact cell further comprises an interconnector, the interconnector is located outside the back light surface of the doped layer, and the interconnector is in conductive connection with the first electrode of one sub-cell and the second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell so as to connect the adjacent sub-cells in series.

Optionally, the width of the open area is 500-.

Optionally, in a case that the volume resistivity of the open area is less than or equal to 1ohm "cm, the width of the open area is 2000-;

the width of the open area is 500-2000um in the case where the volume resistivity of the open area is greater than or equal to 3ohm "cm.

Optionally, the interconnector is formed by firing a non-fire-through electrode paste, or the interconnector is a conductive wire.

Optionally, in the case that the interconnector is a conductive wire, a connection line between a first electrode of one sub-cell and a second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell in one back-contact battery is parallel to one side of the back-contact battery.

Optionally, the interconnecting piece is one of a straight line, a broken line or a wavy line.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: and the isolation region is positioned between the first doping region and the second doping region in the effective region, and the width of the isolation region is 0.1-100 um.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: a third doped region located on the light facing surface of the effective area of the silicon substrate; and the third doped region is disconnected at the position corresponding to the empty opening region.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: a passivation tunneling layer located between the silicon substrate and the doped layer;

the passivation tunneling layer covers the open area.

Optionally, in the same subcell, the first doped region is composed of a plurality of interconnected first doped sub-regions, and the second doped region is composed of a plurality of discrete second doped sub-regions;

or, in the same subcell, the second doped region is composed of a plurality of interconnected second doped sub-regions, and the first doped region is composed of a plurality of discrete first doped sub-regions.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: the front passivation layer is positioned on the light facing surface of the silicon substrate;

and/or a back passivation layer located between the silicon substrate and the first and second electrodes;

the front passivation layer and the back passivation layer cover the open region.

Optionally, each of the open areas is distributed in parallel at intervals along one side of the back contact battery, and the open areas extend from one end of the back contact battery to the other end of the back contact battery.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: the edges at both sides are connected with electrodes, and the both sides are along the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit.

Optionally, the edge connection electrode is in the form of a continuous strip or a discrete dot.

Optionally, the first doping region and the second doping region are both shaped like a Chinese character feng, and the Chinese character feng is divided into a vertical region and a penetrating region; the penetrating area is parallel to the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit;

the first electrode and the second electrode are both in a shape like Chinese character feng;

the first electrode consists of a first contact electrode and a first connecting electrode, the first connecting electrode is arranged on the penetrating region of the first doping region, and the first contact electrode is arranged on the vertical region of the first doping region;

the second electrode consists of a second contact electrode and a second connecting electrode, the second connecting electrode is arranged on a penetrating region of the second doping region, and the second contact electrode is arranged on a vertical region of the second doping region;

the interconnector conductively connects the first connection electrode of one sub-cell and the second connection electrode of an adjacent sub-cell to connect the adjacent sub-cells in series.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: an auxiliary electrode formed on a backlight surface of the open region of the silicon substrate; the auxiliary electrode is conductively connected with at least two of the group of the internal connection pieces, and the group of the internal connection pieces are each internal connection piece formed by connecting two adjacent sub-battery units in series.

The utility model discloses in the embodiment, the silicon substrate includes two at least effective regions, and be located the empty region of opening between the adjacent effective region, doping type opposite first doping area and second doping area, form the backlight face of effective region in the silicon substrate, the doping layer that above-mentioned first doping area and second doping area are constituteed is opening regional disconnection in the sky, and then, for first doping area, second doping area, the backlight face of empty region of opening exists as high resistance body or insulator, namely, through being located the backlight face of empty region of opening, divide into two at least parts with the backlight face electricity of whole silicon substrate partition, and non-physics is cut apart. Meanwhile, the first electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the first doping region, the second electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the second doping region, the back contact battery is electrically divided into at least two sub-battery units through an open region in the silicon substrate instead of being physically divided, and each sub-battery unit is a part, corresponding to one effective region, of the back contact battery. Each sub-battery unit in one back contact battery is still positioned on the whole silicon substrate, and the sub-battery units in one back contact battery are not physically divided but electrically divided, so that the efficiency loss caused by stress damage and thermal damage recombination caused by cutting is avoided, and the efficiency loss caused by passivation loss of the physically divided section is also avoided. Meanwhile, each sub-battery unit comprises an independent power generation structure, and all sub-battery units in one back contact battery are connected in series, so that the output voltage of the back contact battery is the sum of all sub-battery units, and the output current is reduced to the current value of a single sub-battery unit, so that the internal resistance loss of the back contact battery is reduced, the output power is improved, and the battery efficiency is improved. And the interconnecting piece is positioned on the backlight surface of the first doping area and the second doping area, and is in conductive connection with the first electrode of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode of the adjacent sub-battery unit which are both positioned in the back contact battery, so that the sub-battery unit and the adjacent sub-battery unit which are both positioned in the back contact battery are connected in series, each sub-battery unit in one back contact battery is not physically divided, and the interconnecting piece is also a physical whole, the alignment process in the internal series connection process is simple, the yield reduction risk caused by more interconnecting process is reduced, and the fragment rate is reduced.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for producing a back contact battery, comprising the steps of:

providing a silicon substrate; the silicon substrate comprises at least two effective areas and an open area positioned between the adjacent effective areas;

manufacturing a doped layer on a backlight surface of an effective area in the silicon substrate; the doping layer comprises a first doping region and a second doping region which are opposite in doping type; the doped layer is disconnected at the position corresponding to the open region;

manufacturing a first electrode on a backlight surface of the first doped region;

manufacturing a second electrode on a backlight surface of the second doped region;

and arranging an interconnecting piece outside the backlight surface of the doped layer, wherein the interconnecting piece is electrically connected with the first electrode of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode of the adjacent sub-battery unit so as to connect the adjacent sub-battery units in series.

Optionally, the step of providing an interconnector includes:

applying an electrode paste between a first electrode of one sub-cell and a second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell in the back contact battery, and sintering;

or, a conductive wire is arranged between the first electrode of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode of the adjacent sub-battery unit in the back contact battery, and the conductive wire and the first electrode are welded or bonded, and the conductive wire and the second electrode are welded or bonded;

or, the interconnector is formed by printing between the first electrode of one sub-cell and the second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell in the back contact battery.

Optionally, the interconnector includes a first electrode segment formed with the first electrode, a second electrode segment formed with the second electrode, and a supplemental connector between the first electrode segment and the second electrode segment.

Optionally, before the doping layer is fabricated on the backlight surface of the active region in the silicon substrate, the method further includes:

arranging a whole passivation tunneling layer on a backlight surface of the silicon substrate;

the step of manufacturing the doped layer on the backlight surface of the effective area in the silicon substrate comprises the following steps:

and arranging a first doped semiconductor film and a second doped semiconductor film with opposite doping types at the part of the backlight surface of the passivation tunneling layer, which is opposite to the effective area.

According to the utility model discloses a third aspect provides a battery pack, includes: the back contact cell, conductive interconnect, as described in any of the preceding; the conductive interconnects are configured to conductively couple a first electrode of one back contact cell and a second electrode of an adjacent back contact cell.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the method for producing the back contact battery, the battery module and the back contact battery have the same or similar advantageous effects.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic structural diagram of a first back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 shows a schematic structural diagram of a second back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 shows a schematic structural diagram of a third back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 shows a schematic structural diagram of a fourth back contact cell in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 shows a schematic structural diagram of a fifth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram of a sixth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 shows a schematic structural diagram of a seventh back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an eighth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 shows a schematic structural diagram of a ninth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 shows a schematic structural diagram of a tenth back contact cell in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of an eleventh back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a twelfth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a thirteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a fourteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 shows a partially enlarged schematic view of a back contact cell in an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of a fifteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 17 is a schematic structural diagram of a sixteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram of a first back contact battery string according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 19 is a schematic structural diagram of a second back contact battery string according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the figure numbering:

1-a silicon substrate, 11-an open region, 2-a first doped region, 21-a vertical region of the first doped region, 22-a run-through region of the first doped region, 23-a first doped sub-region, 3-a second doped region, 31-a vertical region of the second doped region, 32-a run-through region of the second doped region, 33-a second doped sub-region, 4-an interconnector, 41-a first electrode segment, 42-a second electrode segment, 43-a complementary connector, 5-a first electrode, 51-a first contact electrode, 52-a first connecting electrode, 6-a second electrode, 61-a second contact electrode, 62-a second connecting electrode, 7-a front passivation layer, 8-a back passivation layer, 9-an auxiliary electrode, 10-an edge connecting electrode, 12-third doped region, 13-isolation region, 14-passivation tunneling layer, 15-semiconductor region, 16-conductive interconnect.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

The inventor of the application researches and discovers that the reason that the internal resistance loss of the conventional back contact battery is large is as follows: generally, the back contact cell has an independent power generation structure. By loss of power P_{Decrease in the thickness of the steel}＝I²R, which results in a relatively high internal resistive power loss of the back contact cell. For example, in a conventional back contact cell using a silicon substrate as the silicon substrate of the back contact cell, the output voltage of the conventional back contact cell will not exceed 1.1V, and the output current density will be greater than 30mA/cm²Resulting in a loss of power P_{Decrease in the thickness of the steel}Is relatively large. The reason for the poor passivation properties is that: the back contact battery is physically cut into a plurality of pieces by physical cutting, and the plurality of pieces are connected in series to reduce power loss. But can cause severe efficiency loss for back contact cells due to loss of passivation of the cut surfaces. At the same time, cutting damage and thermal damage from cutting can result in efficiency losses. And, will back of the body contact battery physics cutting obtains a plurality of battery pieces for the multi-disc, and each battery piece that mutually is independent needs accurate counterpoint in the interconnection process, and the technology is complicated, and causes the piece easily, causes the decline of yields easily.

In the embodiment of the present invention, referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 shows a schematic structural diagram of a first back contact battery in the embodiment of the present invention. The back contact battery includes: a silicon substrate 1, the silicon substrate 1 comprising at least two active areas and an open area 11 between adjacent active areas. As shown in fig. 1, the silicon substrate 1 includes 2 effective regions, which are a portion located on the left side of the dashed line on the left side in the silicon substrate 1, a portion located on the right side of the dashed line on the right side in the silicon substrate 1, and 1 open region 11, specifically, a portion located between 2 dashed lines in the silicon substrate 1.

The number of the active regions and the number of the open regions included in the silicon substrate may be set according to actual needs.

The back contact cell further comprises: a doped layer formed on the backlight surface of the active area in the silicon substrate 1, the doped layer including a first doped region 2 and a second doped region 3 with opposite doping types, is formed on the backlight surface of the active area in the silicon substrate 1. The doped layer is disconnected at the position corresponding to the open region 11, that is, the doped layer is not covered or diffused at the position corresponding to the open region 11, and the backlight surface of the open region 11 exists as a high resistance body or an insulator, so that the backlight surface of the entire silicon substrate 1 is electrically divided into at least two parts, not physically divided.

It should be noted that the entire silicon substrate 1 may be a whole, that is, the doping concentration and the doping type of the open area 11 of the silicon substrate are correspondingly the same as the doping concentration and the doping type of the effective area in the silicon substrate 1, so that the effective area and the open area do not need to be distinguished in the process of manufacturing the silicon substrate 1, and the process is simple. The doping concentration of the open region 11 is less than the doping concentration of the first doping region 2 and less than the doping concentration of the second doping region 3. The doping type of the open area 11 is the same as or different from the doping type of the first doping region 2. The doping type of the open area 11 is the same as or different from the doping type of the second doping region 3. In the embodiment of the present invention, this is not particularly limited.

For example, the open region 11 may be doped p-type and the doping concentration may be 10¹⁶cm^-3The first doped region 2 may be p-doped, and the doping concentration of the first doped region 2 may be 10²⁰-10²¹cm^-3On the left and right, the second doped region 3 may be n-doped, and the doping concentration of the second doped region 3 may be 10²⁰-10²¹cm^-3Left and right.

The first electrode 5 is formed on the backlight surface of the first doped region 2, and since the first doped region 2 is formed on the backlight surface of the effective region in the silicon substrate 1, the first electrode 5 is also disposed corresponding to the effective region. That is, the first electrode 5 is not provided at a position corresponding to the open region 11, and the first electrode 5 mainly collects carriers corresponding to the active region.

And the second electrode 6 is formed on the backlight surface of the second doped region 3, and since the second doped region 3 is formed on the backlight surface of the effective region in the silicon substrate 1, the second electrode 6 is also arranged corresponding to the effective region. That is, the second electrode 6 is not provided at a position corresponding to the open region 11, and the second electrode 6 collects carriers corresponding to the active region.

Note that the material of the first electrode 5 is the same as or different from the material of the second electrode 6, and the embodiment of the present invention is not particularly limited. In the case where the materials of the first electrode 5 and the second electrode 6 are the same, the process is simple. For example, the material of the first electrode 5 and the material of the second electrode 6 shown in fig. 1 are the same, and the material of the first electrode 5 and the material of the second electrode 6 are not particularly limited.

For example, the first electrode 5 shown in fig. 1 may be a silver electrode, and the second electrode 6 may be distributed using an aluminum gate line. The silicon substrate 1 can be a p-type silicon substrate, and the process is mature and simple and the cost is low.

The polarities of the first electrode 5 and the second electrode 6 are opposite, and it should be noted that the first electrode 5 and the second electrode 6 are insulated from each other with an insulating gap therebetween. The size of the insulation gap between the first electrode 5 and the second electrode 6 is not particularly limited herein.

The back contact battery is divided into at least two sub-battery units through the open area, and each sub-battery unit is a part of the back contact battery corresponding to one effective area. For example, referring to fig. 1, the back contact battery is divided into 2 sub-battery cells by the open area 11, which are a portion of the back contact battery corresponding to an effective area on the left side of the left dotted line and a portion of the back contact battery corresponding to an effective area on the right side of the right dotted line. The 2 sub-battery units in the back contact battery are not physically divided, but are electrically divided, so that the efficiency loss caused by the combination of stress damage and thermal damage caused by cutting is avoided, and the efficiency loss caused by the passivation loss of the physically divided cross section is also avoided. On the other hand, each sub-battery unit comprises an independent power generation structure, and the sub-battery units in one back contact battery are connected in series, so that the output voltage of the back contact battery is the sum of the sub-battery units, and the output current is reduced to the current value of a single sub-battery unit, so that the internal resistance loss of the back contact battery is reduced, the output power is improved, and the battery efficiency is improved.

The back contact cell further comprises: the internal connection piece 4 is located on the backlight surface of the first doping area 2 and the second doping area 3, the internal connection piece 4 is used for being in conductive connection with a first electrode 5 of a sub-battery unit and a second electrode 6 of an adjacent sub-battery unit which are both located in the back contact battery, so that the sub-battery unit and the adjacent sub-battery unit which are both located in the back contact battery are connected in series, each sub-battery unit inside the back contact battery is not physically divided, the internal series connection process is simple in alignment process, the yield reduction risk caused by more interconnection process is reduced, and the fragment rate is reduced.

Optionally, the interconnector includes a first electrode segment formed together with the first electrode of one sub-cell and a second electrode segment formed together with the second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell, and a supplementary connection member between the first electrode segment and the second electrode segment, so as to avoid a gap existing between the first electrode segment and the second electrode segment, which is not only simple in process, but also can increase the reliability of conductive connection.

For example, referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 shows a schematic structural diagram of a second back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 may be a bottom view looking from the back side of the back contact cell toward the light-facing side. In fig. 2, the back contact battery includes 3 open areas 11, and the 3 open areas are divided into 4 battery units. Interconnectors 4 conductively connect a first electrode 5 of one subcell and a second electrode 6 of an adjacent subcell, both located in the back contact cell, to connect the first and second subcells, both located in the back contact cell, in series. For example, if the first electrode 5 is a negative electrode and the second electrode 6 is a positive electrode, the negative electrode of the first electrode 5 of the left sub-cell and the positive electrode of the second electrode 6 of the adjacent second sub-cell in the back contact battery are electrically connected by the interconnector 4, so that 2 sub-cells are connected in series. The interconnector 4 of fig. 2 includes a first electrode segment 41 formed with the first electrode 5 of one sub-cell, and a second electrode segment 42 formed with the second electrode 6 of an adjacent sub-cell, and a supplementary connection member 43 between the first electrode segment 41 and the second electrode segment 42, and thus, in a manufacturing process, a process is simple.

Optionally, the interconnecting piece is one of a straight line, a broken line or a wavy line, and further the form of the interconnecting piece is various. For example, the interconnector 4 shown with reference to fig. 2 is a straight line. For another example, fig. 3 shows a schematic structural diagram of a third back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 3, the connecting line of the first electrode 5 of one sub-cell and the second electrode 6 of the adjacent sub-cell is not parallel to each side of the back contact battery, and the interconnector 4 is a straight line. For another example, fig. 4 shows a schematic structural diagram of a fourth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 4, the connecting line of the first electrode 5 of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode 6 of the adjacent sub-battery unit is not parallel to each side of the back contact battery, and the interconnector 4 is a broken line.

Optionally, referring to fig. 1, a width w1 of the open area 11 is 500-.

Optionally, the width of the open area may be inversely proportional to the volume resistivity of the open area, that is, the larger the volume resistivity of the open area is, the smaller the width of the open area is, the smaller the volume resistivity of the open area is, and the larger the width of the open area is, which is not only beneficial to the electrical isolation between the sub-battery units, but also beneficial to the improvement of the power of the solar battery.

Optionally, the width w1 of the open area is 2000-5000um in the case that the volume resistivity of the open area is less than or equal to 1ohm "cm. Under the condition that the volume resistivity of the open area is greater than or equal to 3ohm "cm, the width w1 of the open area is 500-.

Optionally, the active areas in the silicon substrate have substantially the same volume and substantially the same shape, and further, the sub-battery units in the back contact battery have substantially the same volume and substantially the same shape, so as to improve the output power of the battery assembly formed by the sub-battery units.

Optionally, each sub-battery unit in the back contact battery is a cuboid or a quasi-cuboid, so that the sub-battery units can be connected in series conveniently. For example, the subcells may be cuboid-like with chamfers. The chamfer can simply and conveniently realize the consistent or nearly consistent area of the sub-battery units, so that the internal series connection is convenient to realize.

Optionally, the back contact cell may further include a front passivation layer located on a light-facing surface of the silicon substrate, and/or a back passivation layer located between the silicon substrate and the first and second electrodes, and the front passivation layer and the back passivation layer both cover the open region, that is, the front passivation layer and the back passivation layer are both complete layers, so that cutting or masking is not required, the process is simple, and meanwhile, the passivation performance of the back contact cell is improved. For example, referring to fig. 1, the back contact cell may further include a front passivation layer 7 located on a light-facing surface of the silicon substrate 1, and a back passivation layer 8 located between the silicon substrate 1 and the first and

second electrodes

5 and 6, wherein the front passivation layer 7 and the back passivation layer 8 both cover the open region 11.

Optionally, the inner connecting piece is formed by firing non-burn-through electrode slurry, or the inner connecting piece is a conductive wire, so that the manufacturing process of the inner connecting piece is simple. It should be noted that, between the sub-battery units or between different electrodes, the material of the interconnector may be the same or different, and in the embodiment of the present invention, this is not particularly limited.

Optionally, when the interconnector is a conductive wire, a connecting wire between the first electrode of one sub-battery unit in the back-contact battery and the second electrode of the adjacent sub-battery unit is parallel to one side of the back-contact battery, and further the conductive wire is also parallel to one side of the back-contact battery.

Optionally, a set of interconnectors is each interconnector that two adjacent subcell units concatenate, and the back contact battery further includes: the auxiliary electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the silicon substrate and corresponds to the open area, the auxiliary electrode is in conductive connection with at least two of the internal connection pieces, and under the condition that any one of the at least two internal connection pieces is unreliable in connection, the auxiliary electrode can be in conductive connection with the rest internal connection pieces, so that the reliability of conductive connection can be improved.

For example, referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 shows a schematic structural diagram of a fifth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 5 may be a bottom view looking from the back light side of the back contact cell toward the light-facing side. The 10 interconnectors 4 in the second column from left to right may be a group of interconnectors, and on the basis of fig. 2, the interconnectors are formed on the backlight surface of the silicon substrate, and the auxiliary electrode 9 disposed corresponding to the open region is electrically connected to at least two of the group of interconnectors, and in a case where any one of the at least two interconnectors 4 is unreliable, the auxiliary electrode 9 may be electrically connected to the remaining interconnectors 4, so that reliability of the conductive connection may be improved.

It should be noted that, the auxiliary electrode is correspondingly disposed on each group of the interconnectors, or some of the interconnectors are correspondingly disposed on some of the groups of the interconnectors, and the other group of the interconnectors is not specifically limited to be disposed on the auxiliary electrode. For example, in fig. 5, only the middle one of the 3 groups of interconnectors is provided with the auxiliary electrode 9, and the remaining 2 groups of interconnectors are not provided with the auxiliary electrode 9.

Optionally, the auxiliary electrode is a continuous strip. For the continuous strip-shaped auxiliary electrode, the extending direction of the auxiliary electrode is parallel to the extending direction of the open area.

Optionally, the auxiliary electrode is one of a straight line, a broken line or a wavy line, and further the form of the auxiliary electrode is various. As shown in fig. 5, the auxiliary electrode 9 is a straight line.

Optionally, the back contact cell further comprises: and the isolation region is positioned between the first doping region and the second doping region in the active region and can play a role of electrical isolation so as to improve the output power of the solar cell. The width of the isolation area is 0.1-100um, and the width of the isolation area not only can play a good isolation role, but also can avoid waste.

For example, referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram of a sixth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 6, within the active area, there is an isolation region 13 between the first doped region 2 and the second doped region 3. The width w2 of the isolation region 13 is 0.1-100 um.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: and a third doped region located on the light-facing surface of the active region of the silicon substrate, wherein a doping type of the third doped region may be the same as or opposite to a doping type of the silicon substrate, and if the doping type of the third doped region is the same as the doping type of the silicon substrate, the third doped region may be a Front surface field (BSF). If the doping type of the third doped region is opposite to that of the silicon substrate, the third doped region may be a Front Floating Emitter (FFE), which may improve the efficiency of the back contact cell regardless of whether the FSF or the FFE is used. The third doped region is disconnected at a position corresponding to the empty opening region, that is, the third doped region is not arranged on the surface, opposite to the empty opening region, of the light facing surface of the silicon substrate, so that the electrical isolation effect among the sub-battery units can be further improved, the mutual flow of current carriers among the adjacent sub-battery units can be further reduced, and the efficiency loss caused by shunting is further reduced.

For example, referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 shows a schematic structural diagram of a seventh back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. On the basis of fig. 1, the back contact battery in fig. 7 further includes: and a third doped region 12 positioned on the light-facing surface of the effective area of the silicon substrate 1, wherein the third doped region 12 is disconnected at a position corresponding to the open area 11.

Optionally, each of the open areas is distributed in parallel at intervals along one side of the back contact battery, and the open areas extend from one end of the back contact battery to the other end, so that each of the sub-battery units also extends from one end of the back contact battery to the other end, and each of the sub-battery units is arranged in a manner that the long sides are parallel, thereby effectively reducing the transmission distance of current on the back contact battery, and further reducing the loss caused by the internal circuit. For example, the open regions 11 of the back contact battery shown in fig. 2 are spaced apart from each other and arranged in parallel along one side of the back contact battery, and the open regions 11 extend from one end of the back contact battery to the other end thereof, and the 4 sub-battery cells of the back contact battery are arranged in parallel along the long sides.

Optionally, the back contact cell further comprises: the edge connecting electrodes positioned on two sides along the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit can be used as the integral output electrodes of the back contact batteries, and are beneficial to realizing the interconnection of each back contact battery in the subsequent assembly interconnection.

For example, referring to fig. 8, fig. 8 shows a schematic structural diagram of an eighth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. The back contact battery shown with reference to fig. 8 includes: the edges at both sides along the arrangement direction of the 4 sub-battery cells are connected to the electrodes 10.

Optionally, the edge connection electrode is in a continuous strip shape or a discrete point shape, and further, the edge connection electrode has various forms. For example, referring to fig. 8, the edge connection electrode 10 is a continuous strip, a connection line between the first electrode 5 of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode 6 of the adjacent sub-battery unit in the back-contact battery in fig. 8 is parallel to one side of the back-contact battery, and the two extend to form the interconnector 4, or in the process of conductively connecting the first electrode 5 of one sub-battery unit and the second electrode 6 of the adjacent sub-battery unit in the back-contact battery by using a conductive wire, the conductive wire does not need to be bent, the process is simple, and the possibility of hidden cracking is less. In fig. 8, the first electrode 5, the second electrode 6 and the interconnector 4 are made of the same material, and thus, the electrode can be prepared at one time, and the process is simple.

The shape of the edge connecting electrode 10 for discrete shapes may be circular, rectangular, or other shapes that facilitate interconnection or welding. The edge connection electrode may be a pad, etc., and is not particularly limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

Optionally, the back contact battery further comprises: the passivation tunneling layer is located between the silicon substrate and the first doping area and the second doping area, the passivation tunneling layer covers the vacant area, namely the passivation tunneling layer is a complete layer, cutting or masking is not needed, the process is simple, and meanwhile, the passivation tunneling layer can reduce the contact recombination rate, so that the efficiency of the solar cell is improved.

For example, referring to fig. 9, fig. 9 shows a schematic structural diagram of a ninth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. The back contact cell further comprises: a passivation tunneling layer 14 between the silicon substrate 1 and the doped layer, the passivation tunneling layer 14 covering the open region 11, the passivation tunneling layer 14 being a complete layer. The first doped region 2 and the second doped region 3 are semiconductor films of different doping types. For example, the first doped region 2 may be a p-type doped semiconductor film, and the second doped region 3 may be an n-type doped semiconductor film.

The part of the backlight surface of the passivation tunneling layer, which is opposite to the empty opening area, can be provided with an intrinsic semiconductor area, so that the electrical isolation effect among the sub-battery units in the same back-contact solar battery is improved. As in fig. 9, the portion located at the backlight side of the passivation tunneling layer 14 and opposite to the open region may be provided with an intrinsic semiconductor region 15.

Optionally, the passivation tunneling layer is located on a backlight surface of the silicon substrate, the portion opposite to the empty opening region is disconnected, the back passivation layer is arranged on the backlight surface of the passivation tunneling layer, the back passivation layer is arranged on the backlight surface of the empty opening region, and therefore in the same back contact solar cell, the electrical isolation effect between the sub-cell units is good. That is, the back side of the open region may be provided with the passivation tunneling layer and/or the back passivation layer.

For example, referring to fig. 10, fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of a tenth back contact solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention. Compared with fig. 9, in fig. 10, the passivation tunneling layer 14 is located on the backlight surface of the silicon substrate 1 and is broken at the opposite portion of the open region 11, and the back passivation layer 8 is disposed on the backlight surface of the passivation tunneling layer and is disposed on the backlight surface of the open region 11 of the silicon substrate 1. It should be noted that the thickness of the entire back passivation layer 8 may be substantially equal, and the back surface of the back passivation layer 8 in the opening may be designed to be concave-convex.

Optionally, in the same subcell, the first doped region is composed of a plurality of first doped sub-regions communicated with each other, and the second doped region is composed of a plurality of discrete second doped sub-regions, or, in the same subcell, the second doped region is composed of a plurality of second doped sub-regions communicated with each other, and the first doped region is composed of a plurality of discrete first doped sub-regions, each first doped sub-region in the same subcell can be formed at one time, or each second doped sub-region in the same subcell can be formed at one time, and the process is simple.

For example, referring to fig. 11, fig. 11 shows a schematic structural diagram of an eleventh back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 11, the first doped region 2 is a p-type doped layer, and the second doped region 3 is an n-type doped layer. In the left subcell, the first doped region 2, i.e. the p-type doped layer, is composed of 10 interconnected first doped subregions 23, and in the right subcell, the second doped region 3, i.e. the n-type doped layer, is composed of 10 interconnected second doped subregions 33. In the same back contact cell in fig. 11, the first doping region 2 of one subcell and the second doping region 3 of the adjacent subcell are aligned and parallel to one side of the back contact cell, the second doping region 3 of one subcell and the first doping region 2 of the adjacent subcell are aligned and parallel to one side of the back contact cell, and then are located in the same back contact cell, and the connection line of the first electrode of one subcell and the second electrode of the adjacent subcell is parallel to one side of the back contact cell, so as to facilitate the layout of the interconnector.

Optionally, in the same subcell, each first doped region is composed of a plurality of first doped sub-regions independent of each other; and/or, in the same subcell, each second doped region is composed of a plurality of independent second doped sub-regions. For example, referring to fig. 12, fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a twelfth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 12, the first doped region 2 is a p-type doped layer, and the second doped region 3 is an n-type doped layer. In the 2 subcells, the first doped region 2, i.e. the p-type doped layer, is composed of 10 first doped sub-regions 23 independent of each other, and the second doped region 3, i.e. the n-type doped layer, is composed of 10 second doped sub-regions 33 independent of each other. In the same back contact cell in fig. 12, the first doping region 2 of one subcell and the second doping region 3 of the adjacent subcell are aligned and parallel to one side of the back contact cell, the second doping region 3 of one subcell and the first doping region 2 of the adjacent subcell are aligned and parallel to one side of the back contact cell, and further in the same back contact cell, the connection line of the first electrode of one subcell and the second electrode of the adjacent subcell is parallel to one side of the back contact cell, which is convenient for the layout of the interconnector.

Optionally, the first doping region of one subcell is aligned with the second doping region of an adjacent subcell and is parallel to one side of the back contact cell, so as to be located in the same back contact cell, a connection line between the first electrode of one subcell and the second electrode of the adjacent subcell is parallel to one side of the back contact cell, and the interconnector is convenient to arrange. Such as fig. 11 and 12 described above.

Referring to fig. 13, fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a thirteenth back contact solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 13, the first doped region 2 is a p-type doped layer, and the second doped region 3 is an n-type doped layer. In 2 sub-cell units in the same back-contact solar cell, the first doped region 2, i.e. the p-type doped layer, is composed of 10 first doped sub-regions 23 independent of each other, and the second doped region 3, i.e. the n-type doped layer, is composed of 10 second doped sub-regions 33 independent of each other. In the same back-contact solar cell in fig. 13, the first doped region 2 of one subcell is not aligned with the second doped region 3 of an adjacent subcell, the second doped region 3 of one subcell is not aligned with the first doped region 2 of an adjacent subcell, and further in the same back-contact solar cell, the connection line of the first electrode of one subcell and the second electrode of an adjacent subcell is not parallel to any edge of the back-contact cell, and the arrangement forms of the first doped region, the second doped region, the first electrode and the second electrode are various.

Optionally, the light-facing surface and/or the backlight surface of the back contact battery may be provided with a light trapping structure, for example, a textured structure, so as to increase the optical path. The light-facing surface and/or the backlight surface of the back contact cell may be provided with a passivation antireflection layer or the like. In the embodiment of the present invention, this is not particularly limited.

Optionally, the first doping region and the second doping region are both in a shape like a Chinese character feng, and the shape like the Chinese character feng is divided into a vertical region and a penetrating region; the penetrating area is parallel to the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit; the first electrode and the second electrode are both in a shape like a Chinese character feng, the first electrode consists of a first contact electrode and a first connecting electrode, the first connecting electrode is arranged on a penetrating area of the first doping area, and the first contact electrode is arranged on a vertical area of the first doping area; the second electrode is composed of a second contact electrode and a second connecting electrode, the second connecting electrode is arranged on a penetrating region of the second doping region, the second contact electrode is arranged on a vertical region of the second doping region, and then the shape forms of the first doping region, the second doping region, the first electrode and the second electrode are various. The interconnector conductively connects the first connection electrode of one sub-cell and the second connection electrode of an adjacent sub-cell to connect the adjacent sub-cells in series.

As shown in fig. 14, fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a fourteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 14, the first doped region 2 is an n-type doped layer and the second doped region 3 is a p-type doped layer. The first doping region 2 and the second doping region 3 are both in a shape of "feng", for example, for the first doping region 2, the shape of "feng" is divided into a vertical region 21 and a penetrating region 22, the penetrating region 22 is parallel to the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit, the first electrode 5 and the second electrode 6 are both in a shape of "feng", the first electrode 5 is composed of a first contact electrode 51 and a first connection electrode 52, the first connection electrode 52 is disposed on the penetrating region 22 of the first doping region 2, and the first contact electrode 51 is disposed on the vertical region 21 of the first doping region 2. Regarding the second doping region 3, the shape of Chinese character feng is divided into a vertical region 31 and a through region 32, the through region 32 is parallel to the arrangement direction of each sub-cell unit, the second electrode 6 is composed of a second contact electrode 61 and a second connection electrode 62, the second connection electrode 62 is disposed on the through region 32 of the second doping region 3, and the second contact electrode 61 is disposed on the vertical region 31 of the second doping region. The interconnector 4 conductively connects the first connection electrode 52 of one sub-cell and the second connection electrode 62 of an adjacent sub-cell to connect the adjacent sub-cells in series. Referring to fig. 15, fig. 15 is a partially enlarged schematic view of a back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a still provide a production method of back contact battery, include following step:

step S1, providing a silicon substrate; the silicon substrate comprises at least two active areas and an open area between the adjacent active areas.

The silicon substrate can be manufactured in a manner of referring to the silicon substrate in the prior art, and the embodiment of the present invention is not particularly limited to this.

Step S2, manufacturing a doped layer on a backlight surface of an effective area in the silicon substrate; the doping layer comprises a first doping region and a second doping region which are opposite in doping type; and the doped layer is disconnected at the position corresponding to the open region.

Step S3, a first electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the first doped region.

Step S4, a second electrode is formed on the backlight surface of the second doped region.

Step S5, disposing an interconnector outside the backlight surface of the doped layer, where the interconnector conductively connects the first electrode of one sub-cell and the second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell, so as to connect the adjacent sub-cells in series.

Optionally, the step of providing an interconnector may include: an electrode paste is applied between a first electrode of one sub-cell unit and a second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell unit, both of which are located in a back contact battery, and sintered. Or, a conductive wire is disposed between the first electrode of one sub-cell and the second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell, both of which are located in the back-contact battery, and the conductive wire and the first electrode, and the conductive wire and the second electrode are welded or bonded. Alternatively, interconnectors are printed between the first electrode of one subcell and the second electrode of an adjacent subcell, both located in a back contact cell. The manufacturing form of the interconnecting piece is various.

Optionally, the interconnector includes a first electrode segment formed with the first electrode of one sub-cell, a second electrode segment formed with the second electrode of an adjacent sub-cell, and a supplemental connector between the first electrode segment and the second electrode segment to avoid a gap between the first electrode segment and the second electrode segment, which is not only simple in process, but also increases the reliability of the conductive connection.

For example, referring to fig. 16, fig. 16 shows a schematic structural diagram of a fifteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. If fig. 16 shows that the interconnector 4 includes a first electrode segment 41 formed with the first electrode 5 of one sub-battery cell, a second electrode segment 42 formed with the second electrode 6 of an adjacent sub-battery cell, and a supplementary connection member 43 between the first electrode segment 41 and the second electrode segment 42, the gap between the first electrode segment 41 and the second electrode segment 42 is avoided, and the conductive reliability is increased. For another example, referring to fig. 17, fig. 17 is a schematic structural diagram of a sixteenth back contact battery according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 17, the interconnector 4 includes a first electrode segment 41 formed with the first electrode 5 of one sub-cell, a second electrode segment 42 formed with the second electrode 6 of an adjacent sub-cell, and a supplemental connection 43 between the first electrode segment 41 and the second electrode segment 42. In fig. 17, the edge connection electrode 10 is in the form of discrete dots.

Optionally, the step of forming the doped layer includes: forming a whole doped layer on the backlight surface of the silicon substrate, and then removing the doped layer on the backlight surface of the open area by adopting a laser or etching mode; or, the doping layer is blocked by using a mask method to enter the backlight surface of the open area, so that the first doping area and the second doping area are only located on the backlight surface of the effective area, and the electrical isolation effect among the sub-battery units is improved.

Optionally, the method may further include the steps of: and the auxiliary electrode is arranged on the backlight surface of the silicon substrate and corresponds to the open area, the auxiliary electrode is electrically connected with at least two of the group of internal connection pieces, and the group of internal connection pieces are each internal connection piece formed by serially connecting two adjacent sub-battery units.

Optionally, before the doping layer is formed on the backlight surface of the active area in the silicon substrate, the method further includes: a full-face passivation tunneling layer is arranged on a backlight surface of an active area in the silicon substrate. The doped layer is manufactured on the backlight surface of the active area in the silicon substrate, and the doped layer comprises the following components: and arranging a first doped semiconductor film and a second doped semiconductor film with opposite doping types at the part of the backlight surface of the passivation tunneling layer, which is opposite to the effective area.

It should be noted that, the production method of the back contact battery can refer to the above description of the back contact battery, and can achieve the same or similar beneficial effects, and therefore, in order to avoid repetition, the detailed description is omitted here.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a battery assembly, comprising any one of the foregoing back contact batteries, and a conductive interconnect for conductively connecting a first electrode of a first back contact battery and a second electrode of an adjacent second back contact battery; the first electrode and the second electrode have opposite polarities.

Optionally, the conductive interconnection is configured to conductively connect a first electrode on a first side of the first back contact cell and a second electrode on a second side of an adjacent second back contact cell, where the first side is a side of the first back contact cell near the second back contact cell, and the second side is a side of the second back contact cell near the first back contact cell. That is, the conductive interconnection conductively connects the first electrode of the first back contact cell closest to the second back contact cell and the second electrode of the second back contact cell closest to the first back contact cell, and thus the size of the conductive interconnection is small, which can reduce the cost to a great extent.

For example, referring to fig. 18, fig. 18 is a schematic structural diagram of a first back contact battery string according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 18, two back contact cells are included, each of which is divided into 4 sub-cells. The rightmost edge connecting electrode 10 of the rightmost sub-cell in the left back-contact battery may be a first electrode on the right side of the left back-contact battery, the leftmost edge connecting electrode 10 of the leftmost sub-cell in the right back-contact battery may be a second electrode on the left side of the right back-contact battery, the conductive interconnect 16 conductively connects the rightmost first electrode of the rightmost sub-cell in the left back-contact battery and the leftmost second electrode of the leftmost sub-cell in the right back-contact battery, and thus the size of the conductive interconnect is small, which may reduce costs to a large extent.

Alternatively, the size of the conductive interconnects or the gap between two back contact cells, etc. may be adjusted so that the gap between individual back contact cells in the battery assembly is small, thereby facilitating the connection.

For example, referring to fig. 19, fig. 19 is a schematic structural diagram of a second back contact battery string according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 19, the gap between the two back contact cells is small, as compared to fig. 18.

Optionally, under the condition that the volume resistivity of the open area of the first back contact cell is greater than that of the open area of the second back contact cell, the width of the open area of the first back contact cell is less than or equal to that of the open area of the second back contact cell, and further, the width of the open area is beneficial to electrical isolation among the sub-cell units, the open area is not too large, the silicon substrate is not wasted, and other areas can be used as a part of the sub-cell units, so that the power of the solar cell is promoted.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the conductive interconnection is not specifically limited, and is specifically determined according to the actual conductive connection requirement, and in an embodiment of the present invention, is not specifically limited thereto.

It should be noted that, for the battery module, reference may be made to the above description of the back contact battery, and the same or similar beneficial effects can be achieved, so that the details are not repeated herein to avoid redundancy.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, which are only illustrative and not restrictive, and those skilled in the art can make many forms without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and all of them fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A back contact battery, comprising:

the first electrode is formed on a backlight surface of the first doping area;

2. The back contact cell of claim 1, wherein the width of the open area is 500-.

3. The back contact cell of claim 1, wherein the width of the open area is 2000-5000um in the case where the volume resistivity of the open area is less than or equal to 1ohm "cm;

4. The back contact cell of claim 1, wherein the interconnector is formed by firing a non-fire through type electrode paste, or the interconnector is a conductive wire.

5. The back contact battery of claim 4, wherein, where the interconnector is a conductive wire, a connection line of a first electrode of one subcell and a second electrode of an adjacent subcell, both located in one back contact battery, is parallel to one side of the back contact battery.

6. The back contact cell of any of claims 1-4, wherein the interconnector is one of a straight line, a fold line, or a wavy line.

7. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the back contact battery further comprises: and the isolation region is positioned between the first doping region and the second doping region in the effective region, and the width of the isolation region is 0.1-100 um.

8. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the back contact battery further comprises: a third doped region located on the light facing surface of the effective area of the silicon substrate; and the third doped region is disconnected at the position corresponding to the empty opening region.

9. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the back contact battery further comprises: a passivation tunneling layer located between the silicon substrate and the doped layer;

the passivation tunneling layer covers the open area.

10. The back contact cell of any of claims 1-4, wherein the first doped region consists of a plurality of interconnected first doped sub-regions and the second doped region consists of a plurality of discrete second doped sub-regions in the same subcell;

11. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the back contact battery further comprises: the front passivation layer is positioned on the light facing surface of the silicon substrate;

12. The back contact cell of any of claims 1-4, wherein each of the open areas is spaced apart and parallel along one side of the back contact cell, and the open areas extend from one end of the back contact cell to the other end of the back contact cell.

13. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the back contact battery further comprises: the edges at both sides are connected with electrodes, and the both sides are along the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit.

14. The back contact cell of claim 13, wherein the edge connection contacts are in the form of continuous strips or discrete dots.

15. The back contact cell of any of claims 1-4, wherein the first doped region and the second doped region are both "torx" shaped, the "torx" shaped divided into a vertical region and a through region; the penetrating area is parallel to the arrangement direction of each sub-battery unit;

16. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the back contact battery further comprises: an auxiliary electrode formed on a backlight surface of the open region of the silicon substrate; the auxiliary electrode is conductively connected with at least two of the group of the internal connection pieces, and the group of the internal connection pieces are each internal connection piece formed by connecting two adjacent sub-battery units in series.

17. The back contact battery of any of claims 1-4, wherein the interconnector comprises a first electrode segment formed with the first electrode, a second electrode segment formed with the second electrode, and a supplemental connector between the first electrode segment and the second electrode segment.

18. A battery assembly, comprising: the back contact cell, conductive interconnect of any of claims 1-17; the conductive interconnects are configured to conductively couple a first electrode of one back contact cell and a second electrode of an adjacent back contact cell.