Silicon solar cells: toward the efficiency limits

LC Andreani, A Bozzola, P Kowalczewski… - … in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Photovoltaic (PV) conversion of solar energy starts to give an appreciable contribution to
power generation in many countries, with more than 90% of the global PV market relying on …

Ultrathin epitaxial silicon solar cells with inverted nanopyramid arrays for efficient light trapping

A Gaucher, A Cattoni, C Dupuis, W Chen, R Cariou… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Ultrathin c-Si solar cells have the potential to drastically reduce costs by saving raw material
while maintaining good efficiencies thanks to the excellent quality of monocrystalline silicon …

Design of optimized wave-optical spheroidal nanostructures for photonic-enhanced solar cells

MJ Mendes, A Araújo, A Vicente, H Águas, I Ferreira… - Nano Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
The interaction of light with wavelength-sized photonic nanostructures is highly promising for
light management applied to thin-film photovoltaics. Several light trapping effects come into …

Towards the efficiency limits of silicon solar cells: How thin is too thin?

P Kowalczewski, LC Andreani - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2015 - Elsevier
It is currently possible to fabricate crystalline silicon solar cells with the absorber thickness
ranging from a few hundreds of micrometres (conventional wafer-based cells) to devices as …

Nanometer-mesa inverted-pyramid photonic crystals for thin silicon solar cells

S Almenabawy, Y Zhang, A Flood… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The usage of ultrathin flexible silicon foil can further extend the functionality of silicon and
emerging silicon-based tandem solar cells particularly in building and vehicle-integrated …

Enhanced absorption and< 1% spectrum-and-angle-averaged reflection in tapered microwire arrays

S Yalamanchili, HS Emmer, KT Fountaine… - Acs …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report ordered, high aspect ratio, tapered Si microwire arrays that exhibit an extremely
low angular (0° to 50°) and spectrally averaged reflectivity of< 1% of the incident 400–1100 …

Role of carbon quantum dot for enhanced performance of photo-absorption in Cu 2 CoSnS 4 superstrate solar cell device

D Sivagami, BG Priyadarshini - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present work, superstrate type ITO/CdS/Cu2CoSnS4 (CCTS) and Cu2CoSnS4: CQD
(CCTS: CQDs)/Al thin-film solar cells are reported. An attempt was made to fabricate CCTS …

Photonic light trapping and electrical transport in thin-film silicon solar cells

LC Andreani, A Bozzola, P Kowalczewski… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Efficient solar cells require both strong absorption and effective collection of photogenerated
carriers. With these requirements in mind, the absorber layer should be optically thick but …

Encapsulation of nanostructures in a dielectric matrix providing optical enhancement in ultrathin solar cells

AJN Oliveira, J de Wild, K Oliveira, BA Valenca… - Solar …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The incorporation of nanostructures in optoelectronic devices for enhancing their optical
performance is widely studied. However, several problems related to the processing …

Establishment of a novel functional group passivation system for the surface engineering of c-Si solar cells

J Chen, K Ge, B Chen, J Guo, L Yang, Y Wu… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Surface engineering of crystalline silicon (c-Si) is the core of Si-based semiconductor
devices. The current commercially available c-Si solar cells achieve this by making use of a …