Controlled spalling-based mechanical substrate exfoliation for III-V solar cells: A review

J Chen, CE Packard - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2021 - Elsevier
Controlled spalling is a fast process that can mechanically exfoliate III-V semiconductor
layers from their host wafer substrates and has the potential to produce high power-density …

Addressing the stability gap in photoelectrochemistry: molybdenum disulfide protective catalysts for tandem III–V unassisted solar water splitting

M Ben-Naim, RJ Britto, CW Aldridge, R Mow… - ACS Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
While photoelectrochemical (PEC) solar-to-hydrogen efficiencies have greatly improved
over the past few decades, advances in PEC durability have lagged behind. Corrosion of …

Gallium arsenide solar cells grown at rates exceeding 300 µm h−1 by hydride vapor phase epitaxy

W Metaferia, KL Schulte, J Simon, S Johnston… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We report gallium arsenide (GaAs) growth rates exceeding 300 µm h− 1 using dynamic
hydride vapor phase epitaxy. We achieved these rates by maximizing the gallium to gallium …

Mechanical stacked GaAs//CuIn1−yGaySe2 three‐junction solar cells with 30% efficiency via an improved bonding interface and area current‐matching technique

K Makita, Y Kamikawa, T Koida… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multijunction (MJ) solar cells have attracted considerable attention as next‐generation solar
cells. III–V‐based MJ solar cells connected to heterogeneous cells, such as GaAs//Si and …

28.3% Efficient III–V Tandem Solar Cells Fabricated Using a Triple‐Chamber Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy System

Y Shoji, R Oshima, K Makita, A Ubukata, T Sugaya - Solar RRL, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) is a III–V device fabrication technology that has
received attention owing to its low production costs. The properties of passivation layers …

Low-cost approaches to III–V semiconductor growth for photovoltaic applications

AL Greenaway, JW Boucher, SZ Oener… - ACS Energy …, 2017 - ACS Publications
III–V semiconductors form the most efficient single-and multijunction photovoltaics. Metal–
organic vapor-phase epitaxy, which uses toxic and pyrophoric gas-phase precursors, is the …

III‐V//CuxIn1−yGaySe2 multijunction solar cells with 27.2% efficiency fabricated using modified smart stack technology with Pd nanoparticle array and adhesive …

K Makita, Y Kamikawa, H Mizuno… - Progress in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multijunction (MJ) solar cells achieve high efficiencies by effectively utilizing the solar
spectrum. Previously, we have developed III‐V MJ solar cells using smart stack technology …

Effect of growth temperature on GaAs solar cells at high MOCVD growth rates

KJ Schmieder, EA Armour, MP Lumb… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing epitaxial growth rate is an important path toward III-V solar cell cost reductions;
however, photovoltaic device performance has been shown to degrade with increasing …

Upright and inverted single-junction GaAs solar cells grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy

J Simon, KL Schulte, N Jain, S Johnston… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) is a low-cost alternative to conventional metal-organic
vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) growth of III-V solar cells. In this work, we show continued …

AlInP‐passivated III–V solar cells grown by dynamic hydride vapor‐phase epitaxy

JT Boyer, KL Schulte, MR Young… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the development of AlInP‐passivated solar cells grown by dynamic hydride vapor‐
phase epitaxy (D‐HVPE) with AM1. 5G efficiencies of 26.0% for single‐junction (1J) GaAs …