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Patent US9947822
Issued 2018-04-17
Bifacial Photovoltaic Module Using Heterojunction Solar Cells
One embodiment of the present invention provides a bifacial solar panel. The bifacial solar panel includes a first transparent cover on a first side of the solar panel, a second transparent cover on a second side of the solar panel, a plurality of solar cells sandwiched between the first cover and the second cover, and one or more lead wires for outputting power generated by the solar panel. The lead wires are positioned on an edge of the solar panel without shading the first and second sides of the solar panel. A respective solar cell comprises a photovoltaic structure, a first metal grid on the first side of the photovoltaic structure, which allows the solar cell to absorb light from the first side, and a second metal grid on the second side of the photovoltaic structure, which allows the solar cell to absorb light from the second side.
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- 1. A bifacial solar panel, comprising:
a first transparent cover on a first side of the solar panel; a second transparent cover on a second side of the solar panel; a plurality of photovoltaic structures sandwiched between the first cover and the second cover; and one or more lead wires for outputting power generated by the solar panel, wherein the lead wires are positioned on an edge of the solar panel without shading the first and second sides of the solar panel; wherein a respective photovoltaic structure has a long edge and a short edge, wherein the long edge is approximately n times the short edge, n being an integer greater than or equal to two; wherein the respective photovoltaic structure comprises:
a first metallic grid comprising a first edge busbar positioned on a first side of the photovoltaic structure; and
a second metallic grid comprising a second edge busbar positioned on a second side of the photovoltaic structure;
wherein the first and second edge busbars are on opposite edges of the photovoltaic structure; wherein the plurality of photovoltaic structures are arranged into n subsets; wherein the photovoltaic structures in a respective subset are electrically coupled in series in a shingled configuration, with the first edge busbar of a respective photovoltaic structure overlapping with the second edge busbar of an immediately adjacent photovoltaic structure; and wherein the n subsets of the photovoltaic structures are electrically coupled in parallel.
