SOLAR MODULE

• US 20100078057A1
• Filed: 04/10/2007
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France (Compagnie De Saint-Gobain)
• Original Assignee: Saint-Gobain Glass France (Compagnie De Saint-Gobain)
• Inventors: Vogt, Helmut, Karg, Franz
• Application Number:
  US12/296,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20100078057A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 136/244
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/0443 comprising bypass diodes integrated or directly associated with the devices, e.g. bypass diodes integrated or formed in or on the same substrate as the photovoltaic cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/046 PV modules composed of a plurality of thin film solar cells deposited on the same substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/0465 comprising particular structures for the electrical interconnection of adjacent PV cells in the module H01L31/0463 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 Photovoltaic [PV] energy

Abstract

A solar module comprising a common substrate supporting a rectifying diode sheet. The rectifying diode sheet comprising at least a back electrode layer, a front electrode layer, and an absorber layer located between the back electrode layer and the front electrode layer. The rectifying diode sheet is divided in first and second sheet parts, whereby the first sheet part comprises at least one solar cell. The second sheet part comprises at least one bypass diode, circuited in an anti-parallel configuration with the at least one solar cell.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A solar module, comprising:

first and second bus bars and a common substrate supporting a rectifying diode sheet,

the rectifying diode sheet comprising at least a back electrode layer, a front electrode layer, and an absorber layer located between the back electrode layer and the front electrode layer,

wherein the rectifying diode sheet is divided into first and second sheet parts, said first sheet part comprising a first string of one or more series connected solar cells each having front and back electrodes formed in the front and back electrode layers and said second sheet part comprising a second string of one or more series connected bypass diodes each having front and back electrodes formed in the front and back electrode layers,

wherein said first string is series connected to the first and second bus bars and second string is connected to the first and second bus bars in an anti-parallel configuration with the first string.