Projects/Publications

Journals

  1. Ebong, A., Cooper, I., Rounsaville, B., Rohatgi, A., Dovrat, M., Kritchman, E., Brusilovsky, D., and Benichou, A., “Capitalizing on the glass-etching effect of silver plating chemistry to contact Si solar cells with homogeneous 100-110 Ω/sq emitters”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 32, No. 6, 779-781, 2011.
  2. Chen, C. W., Ebong, A., Tate, K., Zimbardi, F., Rohatgi, A., and Finot, M., “Development and understanding of high efficiency screen-printed concentrator silicon solar cells”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol.1, No.2, 231-235, December 2011.
  3. Ebong, A., Cooper, I.B., Rounsaville, B., Rohatgi, A., Dovrat, M., Kritchman, E., Brusilovsky, D., and Benichou, A., “On the ink jetting of full front Ag gridlines for cost-effective metallization of silicon solar cells” IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 33, no. 5, 637-639, 2012.
  4. Ebong, A., Xjet Solar, Wang, Y., Jin, G., and Zhou, T., “Capitalizing on the precisions of ion implantation and ink jetted fine gridlines to create low-cost high-efficiency silicon solar cells” Energy Procedia: Vol. 33, 24-32, 2013.
  5. Ebong, A. “Pathway to low-cost metallization of silicon solar cell through understanding of the silicon metal interface and plating chemistry”, Electrochimica Acta 128 (2014) 336–340
  6. Azarbayjani, M., Futrell B., Cecchi V., Gentry T., Ebong, A., “The road map to the integrated design process of a net-zero energy solar house: A case study of a solar decathlon completion entry”, Journal of Green Building, Vol. 9 (2), 20-37, 2014.
  7. Ebong, “Understanding the uniqueness of the inkjet metallization of multicrystalline silicon solar cell”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, in press
  8. Hussain, A. Ebong, and I. Ferguson, “Zinc Oxide as an Active n-Layer and AR Coating for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cell” Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2015, accepted for publication.
  9. N. Chen, K. Tate, and A. Ebong, “Generalized Analysis of the Impact of Emitter Sheet Resistance on Silicon Solar Cell Performance” Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, accepted for publication.

Conferences

  1. Ebong, A., Upadhyaya, A., Kean, J., Rounsaville, B, Cooper, I. B., Upadhyaya, V., Kapoor, A., Rohatgi, A., Tamboli, D. C., Wu, A., and Rao, M. B., “Effect of surface cleaning on pyramid size of randomly textured mono crystalline silicon and the impact on solar cell efficiency” Proceedings 37th IEEE PVSC, Seattle, June 2011.
  2. Ebong, A., Cooper, I. B., Tate, K., Rounsaville, B., Zimbard, F., Upadhyaya, V., Rohatgi, A., Dovrat, M., Kritchman, E., Brusilovsky, D., and Benichou, A., “Implementing narrow front silver gridlines through ink jet machine for high quality contacts to silicon solar cells” Proceedings 37th IEEE PVSC, Seattle, June 2011.
  3. Ebong, A., Cooper, I. B., Rounsaville, B., Zimbardi, F., Upadhyaya, A., Rohatgi, A., Borland, W., Mikeska, K, and Carroll, A., “Formation of high quality screen-printed contacts to homogeneous high sheet resistance emitters (HHSE)” Proceedings 37th IEEE PVSC, Seattle, June 2011.
  4. Chen, C. W., Ebong, A., Tate, K., Zimbardi, F., Rohatgi, A., and Finot, M., “Development and understanding of high efficiency screen-printed concentrator silicon solar cells”, Proceedings 37th IEEE PVSC, Seattle, June 2011.
  5. Ebong, A., Upadhyaya, A., Kean, J., Rounsaville, B, Cooper, I. B., Upadhyaya, V., Kapoor, A., Rohatgi, A., Tamboli, D. C., Wu, A., and Rao, M. B., “Impact of surface cleaning on random texturing of crystalline silicon wafers” Proceedings 26th European PVSEC, Hamburg-Germany, September 5th-9th 2011.
  6. Ebong, A., Cooper, I. B., Rounsaville, B., Rohatgi, A., Dovrat, M., Kritchman, E., Brusilovsky, D., and Benichou, A., “Successful implementation of narrow front Ag gridlines with ink jet machine for high quality contacts to silicon solar cells” Proceedings 26th European PVSEC, Hamburg-Germany, September 5th-9th 2011.
  7. Ebong, A., Cooper, I. B., Rounsaville, A., Rohatgi, A., Borland, W., Mikeska, K, and Carroll, A., “Overcoming the technological challenges of contacting homogeneous high sheet resistance emitters (HHSE)” Proceedings 26th European PVSEC, Hamburg-Germany, September 5th-9th 2011.
  8. Ebong, A. and Addo, E. “Investigation of the dependence of a screen-printed solar cell open circuit voltage on the Al paste composition” Proceeding 38th IEEE PVSC, Austin-Texas, June 2012
  9. Chen, N., Ebong, A., and Addo, E., “Understanding and quantifying the impact of Al paste on Al back surface field screen-printed silicon solar cell” Proceeding 27th EU PVSEC, Frankfurt-Germany, September 2012.
  10. Ebong, A et al, “Solar Electricity: Realizing the dream through digital inkjet metallization of multi-crystalline Si solar cell” 9th HONET 2012 conference, Istanbul-Turkey, December 2012.
  11. Ebong, A. et al, “Commercial size multi-crystalline silicon solar cell with ion implant emitter”, 39th IEEE PVSC, Tampa – Florida, June 2013.
  12. Ebong, A. Hankey, D. and Yang, L. “Developing the next generation low-cost inks for high efficiency multicrystalline silicon solar cells”, 10th HONET 2013 conference, Magosa, Cyprus, December 11-13, 2013.
  13. N. Chen, A. Chowdury, E. Ahmad, V. Unsur, and A. Ebong, “Assessing the impact of Multi-busbars on metallization cost and efficiency of solar cells with digital inkjet-printed gridlines” 10th HONET 2013 conference, Magosa, Cyprus, December 11-13, 2013.
  14. J. V. N. Batchu and A. Ebong, “Photovoltaic Therapy: Assessing the Impact of Nanoscopic Photovoltaic Devices Transporting Chemotherapeutic Drugs” 10th HONET 2013 conference, Magosa, Cyprus, December 11-13, 2013.
  15. Ebong, V. Unsur, N. Chen and A. Chowdhury, “Understanding the sintering of digital inkjet printed (DIP) contacts to achieve low-contact resistance on silicon solar cells”, 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference Proceedings, Durban-South Africa, March 2014. (Key note)
  16. Ebong and N. Chen, “Understanding the uniqueness of the inkjet metallization of multicrystalline silicon solar cell”, Readers Digest, WCPEC-6, Kyoto-Japan 2014, pp.641-642
  17. N. Chen, A. Chowdhury, V. Unsur and A. Ebong, “Comprehensive Assessment of the p-n Junction Formation Technologies for Solar Cell Emitter Uniformity, Contact Formation and Performance” Readers Digest, WCPEC-6, Kyoto-Japan 2014, pp. 739-740
  18. N. Chen, K. Tate, A. Chowdhury and A. Ebong, “Generalized Analysis of the Impact of Emitter Sheet Resistance on Silicon Solar Cell Performance”, Readers Digest, WCPEC-6, Kyoto-Japan 2014, pp. 645-646
  19. N. Chen, A. Chowdhury and A. Ebong, “Comprehensive empirical model for evaluation of the series resistance of a solar cell”, 11th HONET 2014 Conference, Charlotte-North Carolina, Dec. 2014, pp.214-218