Carrier‐selective contacts using metal compounds for crystalline silicon solar cells

J Ibarra Michel, J Dréon, M Boccard… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar cells rely on the efficient generation of electrons and holes and the subsequent
collection of these photoexcited charge carriers at spatially separated electrodes. High wafer …

Non-epitaxial carrier selective contacts for III-V solar cells: A review

V Raj, HH Tan, C Jagadish - Applied Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last few years, carrier selective contacts have emerged as a means to reduce the
complexities and losses associated with conventional doped pn junction solar cells. Still, this …

Carrier-Selective NiO/Si and TiO2/Si Contacts for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

H Imran, TM Abdolkader, NZ Butt - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Carrier-selective contacts based on thin oxides of nickel and titanium are computationally
investigated for heterojunction silicon solar cells. Replacing the standard amorphous/c-Si …

Ultrathin Ta 2 O 5 electron-selective contacts for high efficiency InP solar cells

PR Narangari, SK Karuturi, Y Wu, J Wong-Leung… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Heterojunction solar cells with transition-metal–oxide-based carrier-selective contacts have
been gaining considerable research interest owing to their amenability to low-cost …

Hole-selective electron-blocking copper oxide contact for silicon solar cells

P Ravindra, R Mukherjee… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metal-oxide/silicon carrier-selective heterojunctions may be a low-cost high-efficiency
alternative to conventional silicon solar cells. Here, a passivated Si/cuprous oxide (Cu 2 O) …

Cui as a hole-selective contact for gaas solar cells

T Haggren, V Raj, A Haggren, N Gagrani… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carrier-selective contacts have emerged as a promising architecture for solar cell
fabrication. In this report, the first hole-selective III–V semiconductor solar cell is …

Carrier-selective contacts in silicon solar cells

P Koswatta, M Boccard… - 2015 IEEE 42nd …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A basic but comprehensive theory and terminology that applies to all different types of
contacts in silicon solar cells has, thus far, been elusive. In this paper, we show that, while …

A novel approach to reduce both front and rear side power losses in PERC solar cells using different combinations of transparent metal oxides

W Ahmad, S Tahir, A Ali, K Mahmood - Ceramics International, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper aims to check the TMOs (transition metal oxides) influence on the front side
passivation of c-Si PERC solar cells. This simulation work compares three different …

Silicon nitride interface engineering for Fermi level depinning and realization of dopant-free MOSFETs

B Richstein, L Hellmich, J Knoch - micro, 2021 - mdpi.com
Problems with doping in nanoscale devices or low temperature applications are widely
known. Our approach to replace the degenerate doping in source/drain (S/D)-contacts is …

Si heterojunction solar cells: A simulation study of the design issues

R Islam, KN Nazif, KC Saraswat - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon heterojunction solar cells having semiconducting oxide-selective contacts can
revolutionize the photovoltaic industry with the promise of low cost and high efficiency. In this …