Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Metallization and Interconnection for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Since its first edition in 2008, the Workshop on Metallization and Interconnection for Crystalline Silicon SolarCells has been a key event where knowledge in the critical fields of crystalline silicon solar cell metallization andinterconnection is shared between experts from academia and industry. It has become a highly recognized event forthe quality of the contributions, the lively Q&A sessions, and the exceptional networking opportunity.The situation with the Covid-19 pandemic made organizing the 9th edition as an in-person event impossible andforced us to reconsider the event format. The event took place virtually on October 5th and 6th 2020. We used aninnovative online platform that enabled not only presentations followed by Q&A but also more informal interactions,where participants could see and talk directly to other participants. 120 experts from 22 countries took part andattended 21 contributions presented live. In spite of a few technical glitches, the workshop was successful and thegoals of exchanging on the state-of-the-art in research/industry and connecting experts in the field were achieved.All presentations are available on www.miworkshop.info as .pdf documents. These proceedings contain asummary of the 9th edition (MIW2020) and peer-reviewed papers based on the workshop contributions. The organizerswish to thank the members of the Scientific Committee for the time spent reviewing the MIW2020 abstracts andproceedings. The organizers also wish to thank again the sponsors and supporters for their financial contributionswhich made the 9th Workshop on Metallization and Interconnection for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells possible