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 …

Dopant‐free passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: Progress and prospects

Y Wang, ST Zhang, L Li, X Yang, L Lu, D Li - EcoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of the contact scheme has driven the technology revolution of crystalline
silicon (c‐Si) solar cells. The state‐of‐the‐art high‐efficiency c‐Si solar cells such as silicon …

A highly conductive titanium oxynitride electron‐selective contact for efficient photovoltaic devices

X Yang, Y Lin, J Liu, W Liu, Q Bi, X Song… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High‐quality carrier‐selective contacts with suitable electronic properties are a prerequisite
for photovoltaic devices with high power conversion efficiency (PCE). In this work, an …

Progress in passivating selective contacts for heterojunction silicon solar cells

Y Zhang, T Shi, L Duan, B Hoex, Z Tang - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology, particularly silicon solar cells (SSCs), has emerged as a key
player in meeting this demand due to its mature technology, prolonged stability, non-toxicity …

Dopant-free materials for carrier-selective passivating contact solar cells: A review

S Acharyya, S Sadhukhan, T Panda, DK Ghosh… - Surfaces and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The basics of dopant-free materials used as carrier-selective layers at the surfaces and
interfaces in c-Si or poly-Si solar cells have been reviewed. Emphasis has been given to the …

Passivating electron‐selective contacts for silicon solar cells based on an a‐Si:H/TiOx stack and a low work function metal

J Cho, J Melskens, M Debucquoy… - Progress in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, the ATOM (intrinsic a‐Si: H/TiOx/low work function metal) structure is
investigated to realize high‐performance passivating electron‐selective contacts for …

Multiscale characterization of photovoltaic modules—Case studies of contact and interconnect degradation

N Iqbal, DJ Colvin, AJ Curran, F Li… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current popularity of photovoltaic (PV) systems is due in large part to their exceptional
reliability and significantly lower cost than other energy sources. Studying cell and module …

Thermal Stability of Hole-Selective Tungsten Oxide: In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Study

H Ali, S Koul, G Gregory, J Bullock, A Javey… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In this study, the thermal stability of a contact structure featuring hole-selective tungsten
oxide (WOx) and aluminum deposited onto p-type crystalline silicon (c-Si/WOx/Al) was …

[HTML][HTML] Carrier-selective interlayer materials for silicon solar cell contacts

M Xue, R Islam, Y Chen, J Chen, CY Lu… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents titanium oxide (TiO x) and nickel oxide (NiO x) as promising carrier-
selective interlayer materials for metal-interlayer–semiconductor contacts for silicon solar …

Recent progress in silicon-based solid-state solar cells

H Mehmood, T Tauqeer, S Hussain - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Silicon (Si)-based solar cells constitute about 90% of the photovoltaic (PV) market, and a
drastic reduction in module cost and significant improvement in PV performance have been …