Every electrical contact is at the rear of the cell preventing the metal contact strips at the front barring light from getting to the cell surface.
Contact strips on solar panels.
The top countries of suppliers are china taiwan china and india from which the percentage of solar panel strips supply is 99 1 and 1 respectively.
Interdigitated back contact solar cells ibc.
They can achieve higher efficiency by having all the electrical contacts on the rear of the cell rather than at the front so there are no metal contact strips preventing light getting to the cell surface.
Efficiency is higher because of the way that they re designed.
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J ulie griffiths wanted to reduce her carbon footprint by installing solar panels.
Interdigitated back contact solar cells ibc or rear contact solar cells are a variant of standard solar cells.
Silicon solar cells are metalized with thin rectangular shape strips printed on the front and back sides of a solar photovoltaic cell.
These solar cells are a different take on a standard module.
These metallic contacts are called busbars and have a significant purpose.