High-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: status and perspectives

C Battaglia, A Cuevas, S De Wolf - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
With a global market share of about 90%, crystalline silicon is by far the most important
photovoltaic technology today. This article reviews the dynamic field of crystalline silicon …

A review on the crystalline silicon bottom cell for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells

LL Yan, C Han, B Shi, Y Zhao, XD Zhang - Materials Today Nano, 2019 - Elsevier
Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells have reached certified efficiencies of 28%(on 1 cm 2 by
Oxford PV) in just about 4 years, mostly driven by the optimized design in the perovskite top …

Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: From concepts and materials to prospects

J Melskens, BWH van de Loo, B Macco… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To further increase the conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, it is vital to
reduce the recombination losses associated with the contacts. Therefore, a contact structure …

Photovoltaic (PV) module technologies: 2020 benchmark costs and technology evolution framework results

BL Smith, M Woodhouse, KAW Horowitz, TJ Silverman… - 2021 - osti.gov
This report benchmarks 2020 PV module minimum sustainable price (MSP) via bottom-up
manufacturing cost analysis, for established PV technologies in mass production, including …

The impact of silicon solar cell architecture and cell interconnection on energy yield in hot & sunny climates

J Haschke, JP Seif, Y Riesen, A Tomasi… - Energy & …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Extensive knowledge of the dependence of solar cell and module performance on
temperature and irradiance is essential for their optimal application in the field. Here we …

Advanced photonic processes for photovoltaic and energy storage systems

M Sygletou, C Petridis, E Kymakis… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐energy harvesting through photovoltaic (PV) conversion is the most promising
technology for long‐term renewable energy production. At the same time, significant …

Challenges facing copper‐plated metallisation for silicon photovoltaics: Insights from integrated circuit technology development

A Lennon, J Colwell, KP Rodbell - Progress in Photovoltaics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Copper‐plated interconnects were widely adopted for volume manufacture of integrated
circuits after more than a decade of intensive research to demonstrate that use of Cu would …

Fourteen percent efficiency ultrathin silicon solar cells with improved infrared light management enabled by hole‐selective transition metal oxide full‐area rear …

H Nasser, MZ Borra, EH Çiftpınar… - Progress in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The present study investigates the application of hole‐selective transition metal oxide (TMO)
layers (MoOx, V2Ox, and WOx) with silver (Ag) as full‐area rear contact to 22.5 μm‐thick low …

Free-standing 2.7 μm thick ultrathin crystalline silicon solar cell with efficiency above 12.0%

M Xue, KN Nazif, Z Lyu, J Jiang, CY Lu, N Lee, K Zang… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a record-breaking efficiency of 12.3% is experimentally demonstrated for a
flexible free-standing, 2.7-μm-thick ultrathin crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell, which is the …

Metallization of Si heterojunction solar cells by nanosecond laser ablation and Ni-Cu plating

A Dabirian, A Lachowicz, JW Schüttauf… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
A key step in industrialization of photovoltaics (PV) is the development of low-cost and large-
area metallization processes to substitute the standard screen-printing process of silver …