CN215377421U

CN215377421U - Heterojunction solar cell and photovoltaic module

Info

Publication number: CN215377421U
Application number: CN202121091093.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 孙俊; 尹丙伟; 丁二亮; 肖俊峰; 周华明; 李岩; 石刚; 刘汉元
Original assignee: Chengdu Yefan Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Tongwei Solar Hefei Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-05-20
Filing date: 2021-05-20
Publication date: 2021-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 2031-05-20

Abstract

The utility model relates to a heterojunction solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The heterojunction solar cell comprises a substrate sheet and a plurality of metal wires formed separately from the substrate sheet and used for transporting current carriers. A plurality of metal wires are embedded in the sub-grid lines on the base sheet to be fixed on the surface of the base sheet by the curing action of the conductive paste constituting the sub-grid lines. According to the utility model, the wires are formed separately from the base sheet, so that the wires can be made sufficiently thin, or some other more complex structure can be imparted to the wires, so that the wires can both transmit carriers more efficiently and have a lower weight and less material consumption; in addition, the utility model can omit extra adhesive, and the arrangement can simplify the process steps, improve the production efficiency and save raw materials; and the secondary grid line and the TCO film layer have a rough embedded interface, so that the metal wire is strongly attached to the surface of the substrate sheet.

Description

Heterojunction solar cell and photovoltaic module

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the field of energy, in particular to a heterojunction solar cell and a photovoltaic module.

Background

Climate is one of the important factors of human living environment and also an important resource for human production and life. As the scale of human survival activities increases, human activities have an increasing impact on climate change. With the depletion of fossil energy, climate influences are generated, and especially greenhouse gas emission has a serious influence on the sustainable health development of human beings all over the world.

With the increasing consumption of conventional fossil energy such as global coal, oil, natural gas and the like, the ecological environment is continuously deteriorated, and particularly, the sustainable development of the human society is seriously threatened due to the increasingly severe global climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases. Various countries in the world make respective energy development strategies to deal with the limitation of conventional fossil energy resources and the environmental problems caused by development and utilization. Solar energy has become one of the most important renewable energy sources by virtue of the characteristics of reliability, safety, universality, long service life, environmental protection and resource sufficiency, and is expected to become a main pillar of global power supply in the future.

Semiconductors are used in the fields of integrated circuits, consumer electronics, communication systems, photovoltaic power generation, lighting, high-power conversion, and the like, and in recent years, development and utilization of green energy sources are globally promoted. Under the background of vigorous popularization and use of green solar energy, the photovoltaic module greatly reduces the power loss of the module by utilizing a low-current low-loss electrical principle (the power loss of the photovoltaic module is in a direct proportional relation with the square of working current), and the photovoltaic module generates electricity by laying more batteries at the interval of the middle plates of the battery module, so that the energy density of the unit area is higher.

Solar cells in the market realize power generation by performing photoelectric conversion on solar incident light through arranging PN junctions, and the early BSF cells only achieve about 19% of cell conversion efficiency due to the complex existence of the metal aluminum film layer on the back surface. Through the passivation of the dielectric film arranged on the back surface of the battery, the local metal contact is adopted, the back surface recombination speed is greatly reduced, the light reflection of the back surface is promoted, and the PERC structure battery is formed. On the basis of the technology, researchers further think how to improve the passivation effect and develop heterojunction batteries. In order to solve the problem of laser cutting heat sensitivity, a half-heterojunction cell is developed. A heterojunction photovoltaic module with high product occupation ratio and high conversion efficiency is formed in a gluing interconnection lamination mode.

There are some drawbacks in the current heterojunction cells themselves and in their production processes. For example, the heterojunction battery has an obvious heat-sensitive effect, and the efficiency loss is serious after laser cutting, about 0.4-0.5%; the heterojunction battery is connected by a welding process, the amorphous silicon layer structure of the heterojunction battery is damaged by high temperature, and the passivation effect is seriously influenced; the unit consumption of the low-temperature slurry of the heterojunction battery is 200-400 mg/sheet, and the cost is high; after silver paste consumption is further reduced, welding precision of metal paved by a series welding machine is increased, and process difficulty is increased; the thickness of the heterojunction battery piece is 150-180 mu m, the application of the thin silicon wafer without obvious cost advantage is not friendly to the welding process, the process fragment rate is high, the yield is low, and the hidden cracking rate of outdoor application is increased; the heterojunction battery assembly has high screen ratio and limited conversion efficiency; except for adopting a tile-stacking process, the problem of the hidden crack of the connection between the sheets cannot be avoided at present, and the production yield is low; after the heterojunction battery is finished, the in-chip confluence strengthening treatment is carried out, the processing procedure is required to be added, and the process becomes complicated.

The heterojunction solar cell module usually needs to be provided with a metal strip structure such as a solder strip, and the process link of implanting the solder strip has the following defects: the welding strip is implanted and needs to be formed by bonding through glue, and gluing process equipment is added; the process has multiple steps, complex process and high equipment cost; the bonding glue is generally cured by heating or ultraviolet irradiation, so that the requirement on the use environment of the series welding machine is met, and the cost is further increased; the glue needs a certain time for curing, the processing beat is increased, the output in unit time is limited, and the cost is also influenced; the adhesive glue belongs to chemicals, and is also influenced by the temperature and the humidity of the environment in the using process, so that the difficulty in managing the performance effectiveness of the glue is increased; a glue-connected product is formed, if the glue has quality defects, the quality problem of the component product is further caused, and certain quality risks exist; the space between the physical chips in the battery string reduces the packaging screen occupation ratio, and the improvement of the conversion efficiency of the assembly is influenced.

It is therefore desirable to provide a heterojunction solar cell and photovoltaic module that at least partially solves the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide a heterojunction solar cell and a photovoltaic module. According to the utility model, the wire for transmitting the current carriers is not printed but formed independently of the base sheet, so that the wire can be sufficiently thin or can be given some other more complex structure, so that the wire can transmit the current carriers more efficiently, and has lighter weight and less material consumption; in addition, the metal wire is fixed on the substrate sheet through the conductive paste for forming the secondary grid line, an additional adhesive is omitted, the process steps can be simplified, the production efficiency is improved, and raw materials are saved due to the arrangement, and the grid line structure and the TCO film layer have a rough embedded interface, so that the metal wire is strongly attached to the surface of the substrate sheet.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a heterojunction solar cell, comprising:

the surface of the substrate sheet is provided with a secondary grid line;

and a plurality of metal wires formed separately from the base sheet and used for transporting carriers, the plurality of metal wires being fixed on the surface of the base sheet and embedded in the finger lines by the curing action of the conductive paste constituting the finger lines.

In one embodiment, the plurality of secondary grid lines are arranged in a crossing manner with the plurality of metal wires.

In one embodiment, the heterojunction solar cell further comprises a tiled interconnection portion extending on the surface of the substrate sheet and along the edge of the substrate sheet, and the plurality of sub-grid lines extend in a direction parallel to the extending direction of the tiled interconnection portion, and the plurality of metal wires are connected to the tiled interconnection portion.

In one embodiment, the shingle interconnection is a continuous integral main grid or a plurality of conductive connection points arranged intermittently.

In one embodiment of the method of the present invention,

the metal wire comprises a copper substrate and a coating layer coated on the copper substrate; or

The metal wire is an integral component with the same material at each part.

In one embodiment, the substrate sheet includes a silicon wafer, and an amorphous silicon deposition layer and a TCO film layer disposed on the silicon wafer, and the sub-gate line and the metal wire are disposed on the TCO film layer.

In one embodiment, the metal filaments are located entirely within the surface of the substrate sheet.

In one embodiment, the heterojunction solar cell is an unbroken whole cell, a half-cell obtained by breaking a whole cell, or an N-equal-division cell obtained by dividing a whole cell by N equal division, wherein N is an integer of 3 to 12.

In one embodiment, the cross-section of the wire comprises at least one of circular, semi-circular, trapezoidal, triangular, and elliptical.

In one embodiment, the base sheet is configured to be generally rectangular, the length of the base sheet is 160mm to 230mm, the width of the base sheet is 40mm to 115mm, and the thickness of the base sheet is 100 μm to 170 μm.

In one embodiment, the diameter of each wire cross-section is 200 μm to 300 μm and the spacing between adjacent wires is 3mm to 12 mm.

In one embodiment, the subgrid has a thickness of 20 μm to 40 μm and a width of 30 μm to 60 μm.

According to another aspect of the utility model, a photovoltaic module is provided, which comprises cell strings, each cell string comprising a plurality of heterojunction solar cells according to any one of the above aspects, the plurality of heterojunction solar cells being connected in series.

In one embodiment, each heterojunction solar cell is provided with a laminated interconnection, and adjacent solar cells in the cell string are connected in a laminated manner.

In one embodiment, the photovoltaic module includes a bus bar connected at an end of the cell string, the bus bar including a bus bar body and a plurality of conductive connection portions arranged on the bus bar body in a direction in which the bus bar extends, the plurality of conductive connection portions being configured to be in conductive contact with a shingled interconnection portion of a heterojunction solar cell at the end of the cell string.

In one embodiment, the heterojunction solar cell is provided with a shingle interconnection on the surface, and the head end of each cell string is provided with a connection tab, which is different from the heterojunction solar cells within the cell string,

and the photovoltaic module comprises bus strips arranged at the head end and the tail end of each battery string, the bus strips positioned at the head end of each battery string are in conductive connection with the connecting sheets, and the bus strips positioned at the tail end of each battery string are in conductive connection with the tile-stacked interconnection parts of the heterojunction solar battery pieces positioned at the tail end of each battery string.

Drawings

For a better understanding of the above and other objects, features, advantages and functions of the present invention, reference should be made to the preferred embodiments illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Like reference numerals in the drawings refer to like parts. It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the drawings are intended to illustrate preferred embodiments of the utility model without any limiting effect on the scope of the utility model, and that the various components in the drawings are not drawn to scale.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic bottom surface view of a heterojunction solar cell of a first embodiment of the utility model, on which no metal wires have been implanted;

FIG. 2 is a schematic top surface view of the heterojunction solar cell of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic top surface view of the heterojunction solar cell of FIG. 1 after implantation of a metal wire;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 3;

FIGS. 5A and 5B correspond to cross-sectional views taken along plane B-B of FIG. 4, illustrating the process of implanting wires into the surface of a substrate sheet in one approach;

FIGS. 6A and 6B correspond to the cross-sectional view taken along the plane B-B in FIG. 4, and illustrate a process of implanting wires into a surface of a substrate sheet in another method;

FIGS. 7A and 7B are cross-sectional views of wires in two other embodiments;

figure 8 shows a schematic top surface view after interconnection of two heterojunction solar cells according to the utility model;

fig. 9 is a partially enlarged view of a portion C in fig. 8;

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view taken along plane D-D of FIG. 9;

fig. 11 is a schematic view of two heterojunction solar cells and a bus bar of fig. 8;

fig. 12 is a graph of power loss versus distance between wires for different wires obtained from experiments.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. What has been described herein is merely a preferred embodiment in accordance with the present invention and other ways of practicing the utility model will occur to those skilled in the art and are within the scope of the utility model.

The utility model provides a heterojunction solar cell and a photovoltaic module. Fig. 1-12 illustrate some preferred embodiments according to the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in a preferred embodiment, the heterojunction solar cell 100 comprises a substrate sheet 1 and a gate line structure 2, wherein the substrate sheet 1 comprises a silicon wafer, an amorphous silicon deposition layer disposed on the top surface and the bottom surface of the silicon wafer, and a TCO film layer disposed on the amorphous silicon deposition layer. The grid line structure 2 is arranged on the TCO film layer. The gate line structure 2 shown in fig. 1 and 2 includes a sub-gate line 22 and a stack interconnection portion 21, and the stack interconnection portion 21 is configured to electrically conductively contact the stack interconnection portions 21 of two heterojunction solar cells 100 with each other when the two heterojunction solar cells are arranged in a stack. In some embodiments, the shingle interconnection 21 may be a continuously disposed main grid structure; in the embodiment shown in fig. 2, the shingle interconnection 21 may be a plurality of intermittently disposed conductive connection points with a space 23 between adjacent conductive connection points.

Referring to fig. 3, the heterojunction solar cell sheet 100 further comprises a plurality of metal wires 3 formed independently of the base sheet 1 and used for transporting carriers. A plurality of metal wires 3 are embedded in the finger lines 22 to be fixed on the surface of the base sheet 1 by the curing action of the conductive paste constituting the finger lines 22. The gate line structure 2 shown in fig. 1 to 3 includes both the finger lines 22 and the tiled interconnection portion 21, and a plurality of metal wires 3 can be fixed on the base sheet 1 by embedding the conductive paste constituting the tiled interconnection portion 21 and the conductive paste constituting the finger lines 22 at the same time.

In an embodiment not shown, the grid line structure 2 may include only the finger lines 22 without the shingled interconnection 21, and in such an embodiment, the plurality of metal wires 3 are embedded in the conductive paste constituting the finger lines 22 and fixed on the base sheet 1.

With continued reference to fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the heterojunction solar cell 100 is a rectangular sheet, and the sub-grid lines 22 and the laminated interconnection portion 21 both extend along the length direction of the rectangular sheet, wherein the laminated interconnection portion 21 includes a plurality of conductive connection points intermittently disposed along one edge of the rectangular sheet. The plurality of metal wires 3 extend in the width direction of the rectangular sheet, the plurality of metal wires 3 and the plurality of sub-grid lines 22 are arranged to intersect, and the plurality of metal wires 3 and the shingle interconnection 21 are connected. The plurality of metal wires 3 electrically connect the finger 22 and the laminated interconnection 21, thereby enabling carriers to be transferred from the finger 22 to the laminated interconnection 21.

In some embodiments, not shown, the gate line structure 2 and the metal wire 3 as shown in fig. 3 may be disposed only on the top surface of the heterojunction solar cell 100, while the back electric field is disposed on the bottom surface.

Since the metal wire 3 is fixed on the substrate sheet 1 by the conductive paste constituting the grid line structure 2, the heterojunction solar cell 100 of the present invention may not be provided with a binder. Alternatively, an adhesive may be additionally provided on the basis of curing the metal wire 3 by the conductive paste constituting the gate line. It should be noted that the "adhesive" mentioned herein refers to a member whose main function is to bond, such as a conductive adhesive and a non-conductive adhesive in the conventional sense. The grid lines made of the conductive paste should not be considered as "binder".

Fig. 5B and 6B show schematic views of two ways of embedding the metal wire 3 into the conductive paste constituting the gate line, respectively.

Referring to fig. 5A and 5B, when processing the heterojunction solar cell 100, the grid line structure 2, for example, the secondary grid line 22, may be printed on the substrate sheet 1, and the metal wire 3 is implanted before the secondary grid line 22 is cured at a low temperature, so that the metal wire 3 is embedded in the conductive paste forming the secondary grid line 22; and then putting the heterojunction solar cell 100 into a tunnel type oven for heating and curing, and finally forming an integrated curing connection structure by the low-temperature conductive slurry, the TCO film layer and the metal wire 3, wherein the integrated curing connection structure can meet certain volume resistivity requirements, tensile force requirements, hardness requirements and the like.

Fig. 6A and 6B illustrate an alternative embodiment to that shown in fig. 5A-5B. Referring to fig. 6A and 6B, when processing the heterojunction solar cell 100, the metal wires 3 may be positioned at predetermined positions on the substrate sheet 1, and at this time, the positioning of the metal wires 3 on the substrate sheet 1 may be achieved by using a small amount of adhesive, or the metal wires 3 may be positioned at predetermined positions of the substrate sheet 1 by pressing and holding by a manipulator without using the adhesive; then, printing a grid line structure 2 on the substrate sheet 1, for example, printing a secondary grid line 22, wherein the secondary grid line 22 covers the metal wire 3 along the length direction of the substrate sheet 1; and then putting the heterojunction solar cell 100 into a tunnel type oven for heating and curing, so that the auxiliary grid line 22 stably covers the metal wire 3, the metal wire 3 is embedded in the auxiliary grid line 22, the low-temperature conductive slurry, the TCO film layer and the metal wire 3 form an integrated curing connection structure, and certain volume resistivity requirements, tensile force requirements, hardness requirements and the like can be met. In addition, the depth of the metal wire 3 embedded in the finger 22 is not limited to the situation shown in fig. 5A-5B, and in some cases, the metal wire 3 penetrates the finger 22 in the thickness direction to directly contact with the TCO film, so as to form a structure (not shown) in which the metal wire 3 is embedded in the finger 22 and the TCO film.

An integrated curing connection structure is formed between the dried and cured metal wire 3 and the low-temperature conductive paste forming the secondary grid line 22 and the TCO film layer at respective interfaces, namely, the metal wire 3 is at least partially embedded into the secondary grid line 22 formed by the low-temperature conductive paste in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate sheet 1, the secondary grid line 22 and the TCO film layer have a rough embedded interface, and the cured metal wire 3 is attached to the surface of the finished silicon heterojunction battery.

The cross-section of the wire 3 shown in fig. 5A-6B is circular, and the wire 3 is made of a uniform single material. In other embodiments, not shown, the wire 3 may have other cross-sectional shapes and other compositions. For example, the wire 31 shown in fig. 7A has a circular cross section and is composed of a copper base 311 and a lead-free coating 312 covering the copper base 311; the wire 32 shown in fig. 7B has a trapezoidal cross section, and is also composed 322 of a copper base 321 and a lead-free coating covering the copper base 321. In other embodiments, not shown, the cross-section of the wire 3 may also be rectangular, triangular, etc. The wires 3 are formed separately from the base sheet 1, and their formation is not achieved by printing, so that their formation provides the possibility of being able to have a variety of cross-sectional shapes.

Preferably, the heterojunction solar cell 100 can be an integral unbroken cell to reduce energy loss caused by breaking; also preferably, the heterojunction solar cell 100 can be a half-cell obtained by splitting a whole cell or an N-equal-division cell obtained by equally dividing the whole cell by N, wherein N is an integer of 3 to 12.

As described above, the base sheet 1 is a substantially rectangular sheet in the present embodiment. Further preferably, the length of the substrate sheet 1 is 156mm-230mm, the width of the substrate sheet 1 is 40mm-115mm, the thickness of the substrate sheet 1 is 100 μm-170 μm, and the four corners of the substrate sheet 1 may be all right angles or chamfers (including large chamfers and small chamfers). The finger lines 22 have a thickness of 20 μm to 40 μm and a width of 30 μm to 60 μm. The diameter of the cross section of each wire 3 is 200 μm to 300 μm, and the pitch between adjacent wires 3 is 3mm to 12 mm.

The selection of the dimensions of the various components described above are preferred dimensions for higher power and lower power losses through multiple experimental iterations. For example, fig. 12 shows a related experimental result. The abscissa in fig. 12 is the distance between adjacent wires 3 in mm; the ordinate is the degree of power loss; the sizes of the wires corresponding to the curves from top to bottom in the figure are 150 μm, 200 μm, 250 μm, 300 μm, 320 μm and 350 μm in this order. It can be known from fig. 12 that when the cross section of the wire is set to 200 μm to 300 μm and the pitch of the adjacent wires is set to 3mm to 12mm, the power loss of the wire for transmitting carriers is small and is 15% or less.

This embodiment also provides a photovoltaic module comprising a cell string in which the heterojunction solar cells 100 according to the utility model are arranged. Such a photovoltaic module is preferably a shingled module, and the heterojunction solar cells 100 are provided with shingled interconnections 21, and adjacent heterojunction solar cells 100 in the cell string are connected in a shingled manner.

Fig. 8 to 11 show a partial structure of the photovoltaic module. Only a schematic top surface view of two of the heterojunction solar cells 100 interconnected in a shingled manner in the photovoltaic module is shown in fig. 8, and for convenience of description, the two heterojunction solar cells 100 are respectively referred to as a first cell 101 and a second cell 102. The first cell piece 101 and the second cell piece 102 are interconnected at an overlap region 103. Referring to fig. 9 and 10, at the overlap region 103, the stack interconnection 21 of the bottom surface of the first cell sheet 101 and the stack interconnection 21 of the top surface of the second cell sheet 102 are in conductive contact. When the first cell piece 101 and the second cell piece 102 are properly positioned and interconnected, their respective wires 3 are also aligned with each other, as shown in fig. 8, the wires 3 of the first cell piece 101 and the wires 3 of the second cell piece 102 extend along the same straight line. The shingle interconnection 21 of the top surface of the first cell sheet 101 is exposed to await interconnection with another heterojunction solar cell sheet 100 or await interconnection with a bus bar 200 as shown in fig. 11.

Referring to fig. 11, bus bars 200 are generally provided at both ends of each battery string. The bus bar 200 shown in fig. 11 is suitable for the heterojunction solar cell 100 in which the shingle interconnection 21 is intermittently provided. The bus bar 200 includes a bus bar body 201 and a plurality of conductive connection portions 202 arranged on the bus bar body 201 in an extending direction of the bus bar 200, the plurality of conductive connection portions 202 being configured to be in conductive contact with the stack interconnection portion 21 of the heterojunction solar cell 100 (the first cell 101 in fig. 11) at the end of the cell string.

Alternatively, each cell string may further include a connecting tab at one end thereof. For example, the first cell 101 in fig. 11 may be referred to as the end of the cell string where it is located, and the head end (not shown) of the cell string where it is located may be a connection pad, and the structure of the connection pad may be different from that of the heterojunction solar cell mentioned in this embodiment. The bus bar at the head end of the battery string can be electrically connected with the connecting sheet. That is, the cell string may include a plurality of heterojunction solar cells and a tab at one end of the cell string (e.g., referred to as a head end), the tab may be conductively connected to a bus bar at the head end; the heterojunction solar cell plate at the other end (for example, the end) is electrically connected to the busbar at the end.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 1 to 11, the size of the metal wire 3 of the heterojunction solar cell sheet 100 is equal to or slightly smaller than the width of the base sheet 1, and the metal wire 3 is completely located in the base sheet 1. The utility model also provides a method of manufacturing a heterojunction solar cell 100. The method is described below in conjunction with the structural diagrams shown in fig. 1-7B. The method of manufacturing a heterojunction solar cell sheet 100 generally comprises the steps of providing a base sheet 1, providing metal wires 3, placing the metal wires 3 on the base sheet 1, and providing a grid line structure 2. The order of these four steps is not critical, for example, the step of providing the base sheet 1 may be performed before, after, or simultaneously with the step of providing the wires 3; for another example, as described later, the step of placing the metal wires 3 on the base sheet 1 may be before the step of disposing the gate line structure 2, or the step of placing the metal wires 3 on the base sheet 1 may be after the step of disposing the gate line structure 2.

The step of arranging the substrate sheet 1 comprises the step of arranging a large substrate sheet, and the step of arranging the large substrate sheet comprises the steps of arranging a silicon wafer, cleaning and texturing the surface of the silicon wafer, depositing an amorphous silicon film layer on the silicon wafer and arranging a TCO film on the amorphous silicon film layer. The step of disposing the substrate sheet 1 may further include the step of dividing the substrate sheet 1 into two halves or N halves into units, or the step of disposing the substrate sheet 1 may not include the step of dividing, and a large complete cell sheet may be used as one heterojunction solar cell sheet 100, i.e. the heterojunction solar cell sheet 100 is preferably a large-sized cell sheet, for example, the side length thereof is 156mm-230 mm. The large battery piece can obviously improve the power of the photovoltaic module. Preferably, the step of arranging the substrate sheet 1 may further include a splitting step performed first and a step of texturing and depositing on the split unit sheet performed later. The splitting step obtains the dividing pieces of the standard batteries which are better matched with the packaging models of the components, so that the processed batteries do not need to be further subjected to laser cutting, and the problem of laser cutting heat-sensitive efficiency loss of the heterojunction batteries is effectively solved.

The step of arranging the wires 3 is carried out independently of the base sheet 1. The step of arranging the metal wires 3 independently of the base sheet 1 includes a step of arranging a metal wire blank and a step of cutting the metal wire blank into metal wires 3 of a predetermined length, wherein the step of arranging the metal wire blank includes: a copper substrate is provided and a lead-free coating is applied over the copper substrate. Alternatively, the step of providing a blank of wire comprises: the wire blank is manufactured using a single material. Wherein the step of cutting the wire blank preferably comprises: and cutting the metal wire blank into metal wires 3 with the size consistent with the width direction of the base sheet 1. The corresponding low-temperature conductive paste layer for forming the grid line structure 2 contains functional components beneficial to interface fusion of the metal wire 3 and the low-temperature conductive paste layer. It is again emphasized that the profiled wires 3 are produced separately from the base sheet 1 and are not provided directly on the base sheet 1.

The step of printing the grid line structure 2 includes the step of printing the sub-grid lines 22, and further may include the step of printing the shingled interconnection 21. Specifically, this step includes printing a conductive paste on the base sheet 1 along the edge thereof to form a laminated interconnection 21 such that the extending direction of the finger 22 and the extending direction of the laminated interconnection 21 are parallel, and such that the metal wire 3 simultaneously contacts the finger 22 and the laminated interconnection 21. The step of printing the conductive paste to form the shingle interconnection 21 may further include: continuously printing conductive paste on the substrate sheet 1 to form a complete main grid line; or intermittently printing the conductive paste on the base sheet 1 to form a plurality of conductive connection points arranged intermittently. This step may not include the step of printing a conventional bus bar, and the preferred arrangement of no bus bar reduces silver consumption. The grid line structure 2 is formed on the TCO film of the substrate sheet 1 by a printing process or a laser transfer process.

The step of placing the metal wires 3 on the surface of the base sheet 1 may occur before or after the step of printing the grid lines.

In an embodiment, referring to fig. 5A and 5B, the grid line structure 2, for example, the secondary grid line 22, may be printed on the substrate sheet 1, and before the secondary grid line 22 is cured, the metal wire 3 is precisely grabbed by the manipulator, and the wire releasing action is completed by the mechanical pushing rod, so that the metal wire 3 is embedded in the conductive paste forming the secondary grid line 22; and then putting the heterojunction solar cell 100 into a tunnel type oven for heating and curing, and finally forming an integrated curing connection structure by the low-temperature conductive slurry, the TCO film layer and the metal wire 3, wherein the integrated curing connection structure can meet certain volume resistivity requirements, tensile force requirements, hardness requirements and the like.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 6A and 6B, the metal wires 3 may be first positioned at predetermined positions on the base sheet 1, and at this time, the positioning of the metal wires 3 on the base sheet 1 may be achieved by using a small amount of adhesive, or the metal wires 3 may be positioned at predetermined positions on the base sheet 1 by mechanical positioning such as pressing and holding by a manipulator without using adhesive; then, printing a secondary grid line 22 on the substrate sheet 1, for example, printing the secondary grid line 22, wherein the secondary grid line 22 covers the metal wire 3 along the length direction of the substrate sheet 1; and then putting the heterojunction solar cell 100 into a tunnel type oven for heating and curing, so that the auxiliary grid line 22 stably covers the metal wire 3, the metal wire 3 is embedded in the auxiliary grid line 22, the low-temperature conductive slurry, the TCO film layer and the metal wire 3 form an integrated curing connection structure, and certain volume resistivity requirements, tensile force requirements, hardness requirements and the like can be met.

Since the metal wires 3 are fixed on the base sheet 1 by the conductive paste constituting the gate lines, the method of the present embodiment may not include a step of providing an adhesive other than the gate line structure 2. Alternatively, the method of this embodiment may also include the step of providing an adhesive, for example, in the embodiment where the metal wires 3 are positioned on the surface of the base sheet 1 and then the grid line structure 2 is applied, a small amount of adhesive may be applied when the metal wires 3 are positioned to avoid displacement of the metal wires 3.

The conductive paste constituting the gate line structure 2 is a low temperature conductive paste, and in order to avoid solidification before a predetermined time, the step of disposing the heterojunction solar cell 100 is performed at a low temperature throughout. Low temperatures as used herein are understood to mean temperatures below 250 ℃ and preferably between 180 ℃ and 210 ℃.

The utility model still further provides a method of providing a photovoltaic module, the method comprising: fabricating a plurality of heterojunction solar cells 100 as described above; connecting a plurality of solar cells in series into a cell string such that adjacent heterojunction solar cells 100 are mechanically and electrically interconnected, preferably each cell string comprises less than 100 cells; after typesetting, the positive and negative electrode confluence leading-out treatment of the battery string is realized, and the specific method is that confluence is formed by using a confluence belt 200 preferentially at a specified polarity, and the confluence belt 200 is in conductive connection with the laminated tile interconnection part 21 of the heterojunction solar cell piece 100 at the end part.

The above-described method of manufacturing a heterojunction solar cell and the method of manufacturing a photovoltaic module necessarily comprise some further steps. For example, finished heterojunction solar cells need to be sorted by IV and EL tests; the size design of the radial dimension of the metal wire is emphatically considered when the metal wire is designed and manufactured, so that the metal wire meets the current transmission electrical loss requirement and has low cost and high efficiency; when the photovoltaic module is manufactured, according to the requirements of a module packaging electric model, appearance and subfissure inspection is carried out on the interconnection repeating units and the bus bars, and qualified interconnection repeating units flow into the next link for typesetting; inspecting after typesetting and stacking are finished, and forming a power generation unit through lamination; carrying out junction box and framing on the laminating unit; finished product subassembly test and packing, encapsulating material include EVA, POE, PVB etc. and the full frame structure of preferred two glass areas of packaging structure, including single glass structure.

The method provided by the utility model can effectively solve the problems of multiple process steps, complicated process and low conversion efficiency of low screen ratio in the process of packaging a high-density component by the heterojunction battery. The utility model can finally remove the use of the bonding glue, simplifies the equipment hardware investment and reduces the use process requirement. On the premise of meeting the requirements of safety and reliability of products and reducing silver consumption, the photovoltaic module is combined with a heterojunction low-temperature processing technology to complete and realize packaging application of a heterojunction battery module with high cost performance, and the reliability and the service life of the photovoltaic module are further improved.

In the utility model, the metal wire implantation technology and TCO form an integrated curing connection structure under the drying condition, so that the process steps are simplified, and the production efficiency is improved; compared with a split type adhesive connection structure processed in an assembly packaging link, the integrated curing connection structure is high in adhesive force and large in pulling force; the use of split type adhesive glue is avoided, the quality risk of the assembly caused by the quality fluctuation of the glue is eliminated, and the method is safer and more reliable; physical 'chip spacing' is eliminated, high packaging screen occupation ratio is realized without physical chip spacing, and the conversion efficiency of the assembly is higher; by utilizing an overlapping interconnection process, flexible connection between chips is realized, the silicon chip is more suitable for application of thin silicon chips, and the comprehensive cost is lower; the surface of the HJT battery piece is implanted outside the metal wire, so that the junction reinforcement is realized, and the loss of the junction line is reduced; with the copper process, the corresponding cross-sectional size of the wire may be formed under the electroplating process as the technology advances and the material develops.

In summary, according to the solution provided by the present invention, the metal wire for transporting carriers is not printed but formed independently of the substrate sheet, so that the metal wire can be made sufficiently thin, or some other more complex structure can be given to the metal wire, so that the metal wire can transport carriers more efficiently, and has lighter weight and less material consumption; in addition, the metal wire is fixed on the substrate sheet through the conductive paste for forming the secondary grid line, so that an additional binder is omitted, the process steps can be simplified, the production efficiency is improved, the raw materials are saved, and the conductive paste for forming the secondary grid line has higher adhesive force and larger tension.

The foregoing description of various embodiments of the utility model is provided for the purpose of illustration to one of ordinary skill in the relevant art. It is not intended that the utility model be limited to a single disclosed embodiment. As mentioned above, many alternatives and modifications of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art of the above teachings. Thus, while some alternative embodiments are specifically described, other embodiments will be apparent to, or relatively easily developed by, those of ordinary skill in the art. The present invention is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variances of the present invention described herein, as well as other embodiments that fall within the spirit and scope of the present invention as described above.

Claims

1. A heterojunction solar cell, comprising:

the surface of the substrate sheet is provided with a secondary grid line;

2. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, wherein the plurality of the minor grid lines are arranged in a crossing manner with the plurality of metal wires.

3. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, further comprising a shingle interconnection portion extending along an edge of the substrate sheet on the surface of the substrate sheet, wherein the plurality of sub-grid lines extend in a direction parallel to the direction of the shingle interconnection portion, and wherein the plurality of metal wires are connected to the shingle interconnection portion.

4. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 3, wherein the shingle interconnection is a continuous integral main grid line or a plurality of conductive connection points arranged intermittently.

5. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1,

each wire comprises a copper substrate and a coating layer which covers the copper substrate; or

Each metal wire is an integral component with the same material at each part.

6. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises a silicon wafer and an amorphous silicon deposition layer and a TCO film layer disposed on the silicon wafer, and the subgrid and the plurality of metal wires are disposed on the TCO film layer.

7. The heterojunction solar cell sheet of claim 1, wherein the plurality of metal wires are located entirely within the surface of the substrate sheet.

8. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, wherein the heterojunction solar cell is an unbroken whole cell, a half cell obtained by breaking a whole cell, or an N equal-divided cell obtained by dividing a whole cell by N equal parts, wherein N is an integer from 3 to 12.

9. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, wherein the cross-section of each wire comprises at least one of circular, semicircular, trapezoidal, triangular, and elliptical.

10. The heterojunction solar cell sheet of claim 1, wherein the base sheet is configured to be substantially rectangular, the length of the base sheet is 160mm to 230mm, the width of the base sheet is 40mm to 115mm, and the thickness of the base sheet is 100 μm to 170 μm.

11. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, wherein the diameter of the cross section of each wire is 200 μm to 300 μm and the pitch between adjacent wires is 3mm to 12 mm.

12. The heterojunction solar cell of claim 1, wherein the thickness of the minor grid lines is 20 μm to 40 μm and the width is 30 μm to 60 μm.

13. A photovoltaic module comprising strings of cells, each string of cells comprising a plurality of heterojunction solar cells as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 12, said plurality of heterojunction solar cells being connected in series with each other.

14. The assembly according to claim 13, wherein each heterojunction solar cell is provided with a shingled interconnection, and adjacent heterojunction solar cells in the string are connected in a shingled manner.

15. The assembly of claim 14, wherein the assembly includes a bus bar connected at the ends of the string, the bus bar including a bus bar body and a plurality of electrically conductive connections arranged on the bus bar body along a direction of extension of the bus bar, the plurality of electrically conductive connections being configured to be in electrically conductive contact with the shingle interconnection of the heterojunction solar cells at the ends of the string.

16. A photovoltaic module according to claim 14, wherein the first end of each string is provided with a tab different from the heterojunction solar cell in the string, and wherein the photovoltaic module comprises bus bars provided at the first and last ends of each string, the bus bars at the first end of the string being conductively connected to the tab, and the bus bars at the last end of the string being conductively connected to the shingle interconnection of the heterojunction solar cell at the last end of the string.