Enhanced optoelectronic coupling for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

E Aydin, E Ugur, BK Yildirim, TG Allen, P Dally… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells are of great appeal as they promise high
power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) at affordable cost. In state-of-the-art tandems, the …

Design rules for high-efficiency both-sides-contacted silicon solar cells with balanced charge carrier transport and recombination losses

A Richter, R Müller, J Benick, F Feldmann… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
The photovoltaic industry is dominated by crystalline silicon solar cells. Although
interdigitated back-contact cells have yielded the highest efficiency, both-sides-contacted …

Modeling of dust soiling effects on solar photovoltaic performance: A review

A Younis, Y Alhorr - Solar Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The known standard equations that describe the physics of light converting into electricity
inside a photovoltaic (PV) cell do not necessarily comprise the different operating …

n-Type Si solar cells with passivating electron contact: Identifying sources for efficiency limitations by wafer thickness and resistivity variation

A Richter, J Benick, F Feldmann, A Fell… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this work, the efficiency of n-type silicon solar cells with a front side boron-doped emitter
and a full-area tunnel oxide passivating electron contact was studied experimentally as a …

The race for the best silicon bottom cell: Efficiency and cost evaluation of perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells

C Messmer, BS Goraya, S Nold… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells have shown a rapid progress within the past 5 years in
terms of their research cell efficiency and are currently being investigated as candidates for …

27.6% perovskite/c‐Si tandem solar cells using industrial fabricated TOPCon device

Y Wu, P Zheng, J Peng, M Xu, Y Chen… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tandem cell structure is the most promising solution for the next generation photovoltaic
technology to overcome the single‐junction Shockley–Queisser limit. The fabrication of a …

Passivated emitter and rear cell—Devices, technology, and modeling

R Preu, E Lohmüller, S Lohmüller… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Current studies reveal the expectation that photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion will become
the front-runner technology to stem against the extent of global warming by the middle of this …

[HTML][HTML] Optoelectrical analysis of TCO+ Silicon oxide double layers at the front and rear side of silicon heterojunction solar cells

A Cruz, D Erfurt, P Wagner, AB Morales-Vilches… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Silicon Heterojunction has become a promising technology to substitute passivated emitter
and rear contact (PERC) solar cells in pursuance of lower levelized cost of electricity through …

Efficiency roadmap for evolutionary upgrades of PERC solar cells by TOPCon: impact of parasitic absorption

C Messmer, A Fell, F Feldmann… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passivating contacts created via a thin interfacial oxide and a highly doped polysilicon layer,
eg, the TOPCon technology, are on the verge of being implemented in solar cell mass …

Transparent-conductive-oxide-free front contacts for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

S Li, M Pomaska, A Lambertz, W Duan, K Bittkau, D Qiu… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
In order to compensate the insufficient conductance of heterojunction thin films, transparent
conductive oxides (TCO) have been used for decades in both sides of contacted crystalline …