Research on ultra-thin cadmium telluride heterojunction thin film solar cells

Y Tai, X Zhang, J Li, Y Zheng, G Liu, J Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Cadmium Telluride thin film solar cell is very suitable for building integrated photovoltaics
due to its high efficiency and excellent stability. To further reduce the production costs …

A route towards high‐efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

W Duan, A Lambertz, K Bittkau, D Qiu… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we propose a route to achieve a certified efficiency of up to 24.51% for silicon
heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell on a full‐size n‐type M2 monocrystalline‐silicon Cz wafer …

Improved Rear Surface Passivation of Cu(In,Ga)Se Solar Cells: A Combination of an AlO Rear Surface Passivation Layer and Nanosized Local Rear Point …

B Vermang, V Fjällström, X Gao… - IEEE journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An innovative rear contacting structure for copper indium gallium (di) selenide (CIGS) thin-
film solar cells is developed in an industrially viable way and demonstrated in tangible …

Record infrared internal quantum efficiency in silicon heterojunction solar cells with dielectric/metal rear reflectors

ZC Holman, A Descoeudres… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inserting a dielectric between the absorber and rear metal electrode of a solar cell increases
rear internal reflectance by both limiting the transmission cone and suppressing the …

Photon management in silicon photovoltaic cells: A critical review

MJ Hossain, M Sun, KO Davis - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2024 - Elsevier
With the practical efficiency of the silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell approaching its theoretical
limit, pushing conversion efficiencies even higher now relies on reducing every type of …

Phosphorus-doped polysilicon passivating contacts deposited by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition

JF Mousumi, H Ali, G Gregory, C Nunez… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we present a high quality tunnel oxide passivating, electron-selective contact
that is formed using an in-situ phosphorus-doped polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) layer …

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 …

Polyimide for silicon solar cells with double-sided textured pyramids

N Zin, K McIntosh, S Bakhshi… - Solar energy materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Silicon solar cells incorporating double-sided pyramidal texture are capable of superior light
trapping over cells with front-side only texture. However, increased surface area, roughness …

Light management of PERC solar cell with the front and back dielectric multilayers

J Ding, S Zou, C Wu, L Shen, J Choi… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Light management is one of the important methods to increase the efficiency of passivated
emitter and rear cells (PERCs). With the help of simulation, we designed and fabricated the …

Low‐refractive‐index nanoparticle interlayers to reduce parasitic absorption in metallic rear reflectors of solar cells

M Boccard, P Firth, ZJ Yu, KC Fisher… - … status solidi (a), 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metal reflectors or electrodes in contact with optoelectronic devices can induce parasitic light
absorption. A low‐refractive‐index (low‐n) layer inserted between the metal reflector and the …