A solar cell is provided, including: a substrate; a passivation layer formed over a surface of the substrate; fingers penetrating the passivation layer to be electrically connected to the substrate and including first and second fingers alternatingly arranged; connection electrodes each in electrical contact with end portions of at least two adjacent first fingers on a same side and includes one of a sectional structure and a curved wave-like structure. The sectional structure includes at least a first connection section and a second connection section connected to each other, where the first connection section is connected to an end portion of a respective finger of the at least two adjacent first fingers, the first connection section and the respective finger has an included angle that is not equal to 180, and the first connection section and the second connection section has an included angle that is not equal to 180.

Technology for converting electricity generated by photovoltaic cells to AC or DC output power is disclosed. In some examples of the disclosed technology, a zonal power inverter has a plurality of voltage converters, the outputs of the voltage converters being connected in series and being electrically isolated from one another except for their output terminals being connected in series. The power inverter can further comprise a DC/AC converter coupled to a positive output terminal of one of the voltage converters. In some examples, an isolated multi-junction photovoltaic cell includes a plurality of photosensitive semiconductor active layers, each of the active layers being electrically isolated from the other active layers, and formed from a respective material having a different band gap than the other active layers. In some examples, the multi-junction photovoltaic cell is coupled to the input of the zonal power inverter.

A flexible circuit module is disclosed. The flexible circuit module includes a fabric member including a plurality of fibers having non-conductive elements, and conductive elements oriented through the plane of the fabric. Each conductive element includes a first fiber element strand and a first unterminated end opposite the first fiber element strand, and a second fiber element strand having second unterminated end opposite the second fiber element strand. The fabric member further includes a first side with the first fiber element strands extending therefrom and a second side with second fiber element strands extending therefrom. A first hook-and-loop busbar is conductively connected to the first fiber element strands and a second hook-and-loop busbar is conductively connected to the second fiber element strands.

A solar module comprising: one or more solar cells having a front face and a back face, said solar cells being electrically connected to a terminal via one or more electrically conductive interconnect members, and surrounded by an encapsulant; an insulating backsheet arranged to overlay the one or more solar cells and encapsulant on a back face side of the module; and a laminate interlayer interposed between the encapsulant and the backsheet, the laminate interlayer comprising an electrically insulating layer and a metallic barrier film arranged in that order from a front face side of the module to the back face side of the module; wherein the laminate interlayer has a lateral extent less than the lateral extent of the backsheet.

A display device may include: a base layer including a display area and a non-display area; and a plurality of pixels provided on the display area, and each including a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixels may include a pixel circuit layer, and a display element layer including an emission area formed to emit light, and a non-emission area provided around a perimeter of the emission area. The display element layer may include: a partition wall provided on the emission area of each of the sub-pixels; a bank provided on the non-emission area of each sub-pixel, and disposed on a surface equal to a surface on which the partition wall is disposed; a first electrode and a second electrode provided on the partition wall and spaced apart from each other; and at least one light emitting element provided between the first and second electrodes in the emission area of each sub-pixel, and configured to emit the light.

A solar cell has electrodes in one surface of a semiconductor substrate. A solar cell module includes a plurality of the solar cells arranged in a first direction and in a second direction. The electrodes of the plurality of solar cells arranged in the first direction are connected by the wiring members such that the plurality of solar cells is connected in series. The electrodes of the plurality of solar cells arranged in the second direction are connected by the wiring members such that the plurality of solar cells is connected in parallel. Each of the wiring members includes a strip-shaped connection part extending in the second direction, and is disposed between the solar cells adjacent to each other in the first direction.

An electrode structure, a solar cell, and a photovoltaic module are provided. The electrode structure includes: busbars extending along a first direction and each including two sub-busbars arranged opposite to each other along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, each of the sub-busbars includes first sub-portions and second sub-portions that are spaced at intervals; fingers extending along the second direction and arranged at two sides of the busbars, the fingers are connected to the sub-busbars; and electrode pads sandwiched between the first sub-portions of the two sub-busbars and connected to the first sub-portions, the first sub-portion of at least one of the sub-busbars protrude towards a side away from the electrode pads.

A solar module includes at least one first solar cell and at least one second solar cell, each solar cell including a top side and bottom side, a bus bar, and a plurality of wires, disposed on the top side, extending from and electrically connected to the bus bar. The first solar cell overlaps a region of the second solar cell to electrically connect to the second solar cell and to form a shingled arrangement, and in the second solar cell, the plurality of wires connect to the bus bar outside of the region in which the first solar cell overlaps the second solar cell. A method of manufacturing a solar module includes shingling solar cells using ECA to make a hybrid dense solar cell string that includes at least two hybrid dense solar cells in a shingled arrangement.

A solar cell can include a silicon semiconductor substrate; an oxide layer on a first surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate; a polysilicon layer on the oxide layer; a diffusion region at a second surface of the silicon semiconductor substrate; a dielectric film on the polysilicon layer; a first electrode connected to the polysilicon layer through the dielectric film; a passivation film on the diffusion region; and a second electrode connected to the diffusion region through the passivation film.

A solar cell includes: a first surface, a second surface, a first side surface and a second side surface; wherein first electrode strips are provided on the first surface, and second electrode strips are provided on the second surface; the first electrode strips include first discontinuous electrodes, each including at least two first electrode segments, and the second electrode strips include second discontinuous electrodes, each including at least two second electrode segments; and the first electrode segments include a first end electrode segment adjacent to the first side surface, the second electrode segments include a second end electrode segment adjacent to the first side surface, and a length of the first end electrode segment is different from a length of the second end electrode segment.