A passivation glass coating composition is provided for forming a fired passivation glass layer on a semiconductor substrate having p-n junction. The passivation glass coating composition includes a glass component that is lead free, cadmium free, alkali metal oxides free, and colored transition metal oxides (i.e. metal oxides of V, Fe, Co, Ni, Cr, Cu, Mn) free. The glass component includes bismuth based glasses, and provides a firing temperature range of 500 C. to 900 C., and controlled devitrification. Once fired to a semiconductor device, the fired passivation glass layer provides exceptional device performance including no cracking of the fired passivation glass layer, excellent thermal expansion matching to silicon, good chemical resistance to acid and base, and improved device performance.

The invention relates to a conductive paste comprising from 30 to 97% by weight of electrically conductive particles, from 0 to 20% by weight of a glass fit, from 3 to 70% by weight of an organic medium and from 0.1 to 67% by weight of a silicone oil, each based on the total mass of the paste, wherein the silicone oil hasa boiling pointor a boiling rangein the range between 180 C. and 350 C. The invention further relates to a use of the conductive paste and a process for producing electrodes on a semiconductor substrate using the paste.

Certain example embodiments relate to improved seals for glass articles. Certain example embodiments relate to a composition used for sealing an insulted glass unit. In certain example embodiments the composition includes vanadium oxide, barium oxide, zinc oxide, and at least one additional additive. For instance, another additive that is a different metal oxide or different metal chloride may be provided. In certain example embodiments, a vacuum insulated glass unit includes first and second glass substrates that are sealed together with a seal that includes the above-described composition.

The present invention relates to a conductive paste for forming a conductive track on a substrate, the paste comprising a solids portion dispersed in an organic medium, the solids portion comprising an electrically conductive material, particles of a glass fit and particles of a tellurium compound. The invention further relates to methods for preparing such a paste, to a method of manufacturing an electrode on a surface of a solar cell, and to a solar cell having an electrode formed thereon.

A glass for sealing of the present invention includes as a glass composition, in terms of mol %, 60% to 80% of SiO.sub.2, 8% to 5.8% of B.sub.2O.sub.3, 12% to 18.7% or Li.sub.2O+Na.sub.2O+K.sub.2O, and 2% to 12% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO, and has a molar ratio SiO.sub.2/B.sub.2O.sub.3 of 14 or more.

Disclosed herein is a composition for solar cell electrodes. The composition includes a conductive powder, a glass frit, and an organic vehicle, wherein the glass frit is a bismuth oxide-tellurium oxide-zinc oxide-lithium oxide-based glass frit comprising: 5 wt % to 20 wt % of bismuth oxide; 55 wt % to 80 wt % of tellurium oxide; 0.1 wt % to 15 wt % of zinc oxide; and 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % of lithium oxide. Solar cell electrodes formed of the composition have low serial resistance (Rs) and high open voltage (Voc), thus providing high conversion efficiency and good adhesive strength with respect to a ribbon.

A composition for solar cell electrodes includes a conductive powder, a glass frit, and an organic vehicle. The glass frit contains about 20 mol % to about 40 mol % of an alkali metal, about 20 mol % to about 30 mol % of zinc (Zn), and about 7 mol % to about 20 mol % of magnesium (Mg) in terms of oxide content.

Silver pastes including two powders having different physical properties and silver flakes together with glass frits and pigments impart improved thermal stress characteristics to substrates upon firing.

A seal composition includes a first alkaline earth metal oxide, a second alkaline earth metal oxide which is different from the first alkaline earth metal oxide, aluminum oxide, and silica in an amount such that molar percent of silica in the composition is at least five molar percent greater than two times a combined molar percent of the first alkaline earth metal oxide and the second alkaline earth metal oxide. The composition is substantially free of phosphorus oxide. The seal composition forms a glass ceramic seal which includes silica containing glass cores located in a crystalline matrix comprising barium aluminosilicate, and calcium aluminosilicate crystals located in the glass cores.

Disclosed is a glass composition for sealing a large-area dye-sensitized solar cell, and more particularly, to a glass composition which may be uniformly bonded to a large-area without reacting with an electrolyte.