1. A photovoltaic device comprising:
a single-crystalline silicon substrate;
a non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer, which is formed on an upper surface of said single-crystalline silicon substrate;
a transparent conductive film which is formed on an upper surface of said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer; and
a collector which is formed on an upper surface of said transparent conductive film,
wherein said transparent conductive film is formed so as to expose the periphery of the upper surface of said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer on the side of said collector, the periphery including an edge of the photovoltaic device,
said collector is formed so as to be in contact with the exposed upper surface of said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer on the side of said collector,
said collector includes first electrode portions for collecting currents and a second electrode portion for aggregating said currents collected by said first electrode portions, formed so as to connect with said first electrode portions,
said second electrode portion is formed so as to extend in a prescribed direction in plane view and a part of said second electrode portion in the vicinity of its end in the longitudinal direction thereof extending in said prescribed direction is in direct contact with both an upper surface of said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer and a surface of a side edge of the transparent conductive film, and
the remaining part of said second electrode portion is in contact with the upper surface of said transparent conductive film.
2. The photovoltaic device according to claim 1, wherein said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer includes an amorphous silicon layer.
3. The photovoltaic device according to claim 1, wherein said single-crystalline silicon substrate is a first conductivity type single-crystalline silicon substrate, said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer includes a substantially intrinsic first non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer formed on the upper surface of said single-crystalline silicon substrate, and a second conductivity type second non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer formed on the upper surface of said first non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer, and said collector is in partial contact with the upper surface of said second non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer.
4. The photovoltaic device according to claim 3, wherein said first non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer and said second non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer include amorphous silicon layers.
5. The photovoltaic device according to claim 1, wherein parts of said second electrode portion in the vicinities of both its ends in the longitudinal direction thereof are in contact with said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer.
6. The photovoltaic device according to claim 1, wherein said transparent conductive film includes an opening, which is recessed in a plan view, on a part of the outer side surface of said transparent conductive film, and said collector is in contact with said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer through the opening of said transparent conductive film.
7. The photovoltaic device according to claim 6, wherein at least a part of said opening is formed in a region shaded by said collector.
8. A photovoltaic device comprising:
a single-crystalline silicon substrate;
a non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer, which is formed on an upper surface of said single-crystalline silicon substrate;
a transparent conductive film, which is formed on an upper surface of said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer; and
a collector which is formed on an upper surface of said transparent conductive film,
wherein said non-single-crystalline semiconductor layer and said transparent conductive film are formed so as to partially expose the upper surface of said single-crystalline silicon substrate on the side of said collector, and
said collector is formed so as to be in direct contact with both the exposed upper surface of said single-crystalline silicon substrate on the side of said collector and the upper surface of the transparent conductive film.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising:
a nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles that eject fluid onto a medium are arranged;
a first movement unit that displaces a relative position between the medium and the nozzle row in a cross direction that intersects with a direction in which the nozzle row extends;
a second movement unit that displaces the relative position between the medium and the nozzle row in a nozzle row direction in which the nozzle row extends; and
a control unit that forms a plurality of dot-lines by repeating a fluid ejection operation in which the relative position in the cross direction is displaced while fluid is ejected so as to form a dot-line and a displacement operation in which the relative position in the nozzle row direction is displaced, the control unit controlling the fluid ejection operation and the displacement operation to form adjacent dot-lines in the plurality of dot-lines such that each time of the adjacent dot-lines is smaller than that in the case where the plurality of dot-lines are formed in sequence from one end of the plurality of dot-line, the time being between when one dot-line of the adjacent dot-lines is formed to when the other dot-line of the adjacent dot-lines is formed.
2. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the fluid ejection operation and the displacement operation to be performed such that, after a certain dot-line is formed, the next two dot-lines are alternately formed on both sides of the previously formed dot-line, which is taken as a center dot-line.
3. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a displacement amount in the nozzle row direction is larger than a nozzle pitch of the nozzles.
4. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a head unit having a plurality of the nozzle rows, wherein a length of the head unit in the nozzle row direction is larger than a width of the medium in the nozzle row direction.
5. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a distance between the nozzles on the head unit at both ends in the nozzle row direction is larger than the width of the medium in the nozzle row direction.
6. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the plurality of the nozzle rows of the head unit are arranged in a staggered arrangement.
7. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the head unit has a plurality of heads that are arranged in a staggered arrangement, each of the plurality of heads has the plurality of the nozzle rows that are arranged in the cross direction, the plurality of the nozzle rows that are arranged in the cross direction are configured to each eject a different fluid.
8. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first movement unit moves the nozzle row in the cross direction.
9. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a third movement unit that transports the medium in the cross direction after all the dot-lines are formed on the medium.
10. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a length of the medium in the nozzle row direction decreases due to an effect of the fluid ejection operation.
11. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a length of the medium in the nozzle row direction increases due to an effect of the fluid ejection operation.
12. The fluid ejecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the fluid ejection operation and the displacement operation to be performed with a plurality of print resolutions, and a time between when one of the adjacent dot-lines in the plurality of dot-lines is formed to when the other of the adjacent dot-lines is formed is smaller than a time taken to perform seven passes using the second movement unit.
13. A fluid ejecting method for use in a fluid ejecting apparatus including:
a nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles that eject fluid onto a medium are arranged;
a first movement unit that displaces a relative position between the medium and the nozzle row in a cross direction that intersects with a direction in which the nozzle row extends; and
a second movement unit that displaces the relative position between the medium and the nozzle row in a nozzle row direction in which the nozzle row extends, wherein a plurality of dot-lines are formed by alternately repeating a fluid ejection operation in which the relative position in the cross direction is displaced while fluid is ejected so as to form a dot-line and a displacement operation in which the relative position in the nozzle row direction is displaced, the fluid ejecting method comprising:
performing the fluid ejection operation and the displacement operation so as to form adjacent dot-lines in the plurality of dot-lines such that a maximum time between when one of the adjacent dot-lines is formed to when the other of the adjacent dot-lines is formed is smaller than that in the case where one of the adjacent dot-lines is formed by a first fluid ejection operation and then the other of the adjacent dot-lines is formed at a position between the dot-lines formed by the first fluid ejection operation in sequence from one end of the nozzle row.