Sphelar® is superior!

Kyosemi provides new surface structuring technology

Through
our featured product of Sphelar®

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 Contents

Š Basic concept & Performance

Š Cost & Environmental issue
Š Fabrication technique
Š Applications

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 Basic concept of Sphelar® cell
Š 3D light capture
Š Efficient usage of silicon
Š High pliability
Š Light weight & durable
Š Any combination of S/P
connections
Conventional flat cell
Š Flat reception surface only
Š Sun tracking system required
Š Large silicon loss
Š Constraints on design of module
Š not flexible
Š Heavy weight & fragile
Š Complicated electrode formation
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 Directivity

Sphelar® has an extremely low degree of directivity

And can capture light in all directions to produce electricity.

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 Performance

Kyosemi proposes a new type of standard measurements involving a Lambertian reflector

To evaluate maximum potential of Sphelar cell.

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Sphelar® cell
J (mA/cm2)

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20

Conventional flat cell

0 Reflector
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8

V (V)

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 Production cost & environmental issue

In Sphelar® technology, In conventional Si cell,

•Only SOG-purity is required, no crystallinity

•wire sawing is not utilized,

so a waste is almost eliminated. High cost & limited amount
Of
•Recyclable EG-Si scrap

(Casting)
Wire sawing

½ lost
due to kerf loss

~1/3
Cost of Cz or MC-Si material

Total module cost

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 Special manufacturing technique

1. Molten silicon dripped at the top floor

into 14 m high tower.
4F
2. Under space-like conditions of micro-gravity,

droplets experience no stress

and allowed to cool into spherical shape.

3F
(in similar fashion as spherical lead bullets)

2F Furthermore, upgrading in purity

The process is container-less

and allows imperfections to isolate and evaporate.

1F

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 Schematic of Sphelar®

•The electrode arrangement

makes the cell non-directive

can realize an even distribution Of generated current,

facilitates a serial and/or parallel connection of the cell to the other.

(designed for any voltage and current)

Ag electrode
+
n shell

p core

Al electrode

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 Prospect

+ Optimum cell design

The
sun + Optimization of
gettering &
passivation techniques
+ AR coatings

Higher performance can be expected.

Reflector

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Modules of Sphelar®

• 3D light capture
• Flexible
• See-through

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 Prototype planar module of Sphelar®

Isc 0.4822 A
Voc 2.984 V
Ipm 0.4504 A
VPm 2.338 V
Pmax 1053 mW
FF 0.744

@AM1.5(100 mW/cm2), Temp 25°C

(1,760 cells, 5 cells in series and 352 cells in parallel, aperture:60 %)

Mounted on a white resin reflection plate,
With its surface covered with transparent resin,
Measuring 130 x 130 x 10 mm

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 Prototype corrugated module of Sphelar®

Isc 30.38 mA
Voc 18.54 V
Ipm 27.24 mA
VPm 15.26 V
Pmax 416 mW
FF 0.738

@AM1.5(100 mW/cm2), Temp 25°C

(1,024 cells, 32 cells in parallel, 32 cells in series)

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 Optimum design of Sphelar® modules

To get a knowledge for optimum design, an advanced device simulator (SILVACO) is

used to model light absorption and photo-generation in Sphelar®.

Sphelar

reflector

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 New and innovative solar applications

•Recharging batteries located on active wireless sensors

(sensor networks, remote sensing, chemical agent detections, long-range RFID tags, etc.)

•Portable power source applications

•Perpetual solar street light applications

•Transparent cell panels for road sound barrier and BIPV applications

•Applications on curved surfaces, such as automobiles or round facades

•Integration into bags, backpacks, or even pieces of clothing

•Utility applications

•High voltage applications

(any combination of serial and/or parallel connections)

•Customized and conformable shape applications (market creation)

(any applications in which flat cells, on account of their construction, cannot be used)

And more!

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