The substrate (the metal to be plated) covers itself with a film of adhering gas or oxide that cannot be cleaned away; the plating material is deposited on the film, not on the underlying metal ...

He warns to keep the solution and the material being plated in constant motion to avoid heavy “burn spots”, which can flake off after the plating process. The results speak for themselves.

The global Chrome Plating market has grown dramatically in the last few years. The main aspects causing a surge in the ...

The UNSW researchers used copper plating on the front grid of TOPCon cells to reduce performance losses linked to contaminants. Image: UNSW/Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, CC BY 4.0 ...

Their findings are available in the study “Alleviating contaminant-induced degradation of TOPCon solar cells with copper plating,” published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells.