Status and perspectives of crystalline silicon photovoltaics in research and industry

C Ballif, FJ Haug, M Boccard, PJ Verlinden… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaics has long been considered energy intensive and
costly. Over the past decades, spectacular improvements along the manufacturing chain …

Towards the 10‐Year Milestone of Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Z Ying, X Yang, X Wang, J Ye - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell represents one of the most promising avenues for
exceeding the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction solar cells at a reasonable cost …

Passivating contacts and tandem concepts: Approaches for the highest silicon-based solar cell efficiencies

M Hermle, F Feldmann, M Bivour… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The efficiency of photovoltaic energy conversion is a decisive factor for low-cost electricity
from renewable energies. In recent years, the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells in …

25.1%-Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell Based on a p-type Monocrystalline Textured Silicon Wafer and High-Temperature Passivating …

G Nogay, F Sahli, J Werner, R Monnard… - ACS Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
25.1%-Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell Based on a p-type
Monocrystalline Textured Silicon Wafer and Hig Page 1 25.1%-Efficient Monolithic …

High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: materials, devices and applications

Y Liu, Y Li, Y Wu, G Yang, L Mazzarella… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge
of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently …

Passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon-based solar cells: from single-junction to tandem architecture

J Zhou, Q Huang, Y Ding, G Hou, Y Zhao - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The electricity market from renewable energies is strongly driven by the pursuit of high
energy conversion efficiency, which at present represents the most effective pathway to …

Progress on the intrinsic a-Si: H films for interface passivation of silicon heterojunction solar cells: A review

J Panigrahi, VK Komarala - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
Amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells are well known for their
inherent high open-circuit voltage (V OC) potential, much better temperature coefficient …

A Review: Application of Doped Hydrogenated Nanocrystalline Silicon Oxide in High Efficiency Solar Cell Devices

D Qiu, A Lambertz, W Duan, L Mazzarella… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the unique microstructure of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon oxide (nc‐SiOx: H),
the optoelectronic properties of this material can be tuned over a wide range, which makes it …

Silicon solar cells with passivating contacts: Classification and performance

D Yan, A Cuevas, J Stuckelberger… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2014 marks the point when silicon solar cells surpassed the 25% efficiency mark.
Since then, all devices exceeding this mark, both small and large area, with contacts on both …

Lateral transport in silicon solar cells

J Haschke, G Christmann, C Messmer… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate lateral charge carrier transport in crystalline silicon solar cells. Under typical
operation illumination of high-efficiency solar cells, a significant population of electrons and …