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Technical Papers

The Drivers of Levelized Cost of Electricity for Utility Scale Photovoltaics
- Matthew P. Campbell, Peter Aschenbrenner, Julie Blunden, Ed Smeloff, Steve Wright

High Efficiency, Back-Contact Bifacial Solar Cells and Application
- Matthew P. Campbell, Denis M. DeCeuster, Peter Cousins, Adam Detrick, Raphael Manalo, William P. Mulligan

Low Cost, high volume production of >22% efficiency silicon solar cells
- Denis De Ceuster, Peter Cousins, Doug Rose, Dennis Vicente, Pauline Tipones and William Mulligan

The Effect of Soiling on Photovoltaic Systems Located in Arid Climates
- Adrianne Kimber

Impact of Tilt Angle on System Economics for Area Constrained Rooftops
- M. Culligan and J. Botkin

Long-Term Performance of 60 MW of Installed Systems in the US, Europe and Asia
- Adrianne Kimber

Solder Joint Degradation in High Efficiency All Back Contact Solar Cells
- Y. Meydbray, K. Wilson, E. Brambila, A. Terao, S. Daroczi

Reducing Silicon Consumption by Leveraging Cell Efficiency

- William P. Mulligan, Marie A. Carandang, Matthew Dawson, Denis M. De Ceuster, Charles N. Stone, Richard M. Swanson, September 2006 (pdf 110 KB)

Measuring The Effect Of Cell Mismatch On Module Output
- Karen Wilson, Denis De Ceuster, Ronald A. Sinton, June 2006 (pdf 1.21 MB)

Building Integrated Facades In New York,Using High Effcient Back Contact SolarCells
- J. Juergens, P. Aschenbrenner, V. Desai and Anthony O. Pereira, May 2006 (pdf 148 KB)

Mass Production Of PV Modules With 18% Total-Area Efficiency And High Energy Delivery Per Peak Watt
- Doug Rose, Oliver Koehler, Neil Kaminar, Bill Mulligan, David King, May 2006 (pdf 224 KB)

Back Contact Solar Cells in BIPV Applications - A New Dimension of Aarchitectual PV Design
- J. Juergens, P. Aschenbrenner, V. Desai and C. Erban, June 2005 (pdf 237 KB)

SunPower Discovers the "Surface Polarization" Effect in High Efficiency Solar Cells
- Richard M. Swanson, August 2005 (pdf 40KB)

Development and manufacture of Reliable PV Modules with > 17% Efficiency
- Doug Rose and Shan Daroczi, June 2005 (pdf 373 KB)

A Vision for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
- Richard M. Swanson, June 2004 (pdf 126 KB)

Manufacture of solar cells with 21% efficiency
- William P. Mulligan, et al, June 2004 (pdf 589 KB)

Light Trapping in SunPower's A-300 Cells
- Keith R. McIntosh, et al, June 2004 (pdf 69 KB)

Mechanically Stacked Cells for Flat-Plate-Micro-Concentrator
- Akira Terao, et al, June 2004 (pdf 584 KB)

The Choice of Silicon Wafer for the production of Low-Cost Rear-Contact Solar Cells
- Keith R. McIntosh, et al, May 2003 (pdf 85 KB)

Development of Chip-Size Silicon Solar Cells
- [Proceedings 28th IEEE PVSC, 2000] (pdf 135 KB)

A Mirror-Less Design for Micro-Concentrator Modules
- [Proceedings 28th IEEE PVSC, 2000] (pdf 70 KB)

One-Year Comparison of a Concentrator Module with Silicon Point-Contact Solar Cell to a Fixed Flat Plate Module in Northern California
- [Proceedings of the 16th EPSEC, 2000] (pdf 57 KB)

Backside-Contact Silicon Solar Cells with Improved Efficiency for the ’96 World Solar Challenge
- [Proceedings of the 15th EPSEC, 1997] (pdf 59 KB)