Transparent electrodes for efficient optoelectronics

M Morales‐Masis, S De Wolf… - Advanced Electronic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of new generations of optoelectronic devices that combine high
performance and novel functionalities (eg, flexibility/bendability, adaptability, semi or full …

Light trapping in thin silicon solar cells: A review on fundamentals and technologies

R Saive - Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thin, flexible, and efficient silicon solar cells would revolutionize the photovoltaic market and
open up new opportunities for PV integration. However, as an indirect semiconductor, silicon …

Six-junction III–V solar cells with 47.1% conversion efficiency under 143 Suns concentration

JF Geisz, RM France, KL Schulte, MA Steiner… - Nature energy, 2020 - nature.com
Single-junction flat-plate terrestrial solar cells are fundamentally limited to about 30% solar-
to-electricity conversion efficiency, but multiple junctions and concentrated light make much …

Van der Waals materials for atomically-thin photovoltaics: promise and outlook

D Jariwala, AR Davoyan, J Wong, HA Atwater - Acs Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors provide a unique opportunity for optoelectronics due
to their layered atomic structure and electronic and optical properties. To date, a majority of …

Printing technologies for silicon solar cell metallization: A comprehensive review

S Tepner, A Lorenz - Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a comprehensive overview on printing technologies for metallization of
solar cells. Throughout the last 30 years, flatbed screen printing has established itself as the …

Recent progress in materials and device design for semitransparent photovoltaic technologies

P Kumar, S You, A Vomiero - Advanced Energy Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Semitransparent photovoltaic (STPV) solar cells offer an immense opportunity to expand the
scope of photovoltaics to special applications such as windows, facades, skylights, and so …

Photonics for photovoltaics: Advances and opportunities

EC Garnett, B Ehrler, A Polman, E Alarcon-Llado - ACS photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic systems have reached impressive efficiencies, with records in the range of 20–
30% for single-junction cells based on many different materials, yet the fundamental …

Perovskite solar cells for building integrated photovoltaics⁠—glazing applications

J Bing, LG Caro, HP Talathi, NL Chang, DR Mckenzie… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Perovskite solar cells have attracted tremendous research and development activity in
recent years due to their excellent optoelectronic material properties and ease of fabrication …

The influence of spectral albedo on bifacial solar cells: A theoretical and experimental study

TCR Russell, R Saive, A Augusto… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have investigated the influence of the spectral albedo on the power output of bifacial
solar cells. We adapted the Shockley-Queisser radiative flux balance framework to account …

Learning from existing photovoltaic technologies to identify alternative perovskite module designs

J Werner, CC Boyd, T Moot, EJ Wolf… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Perovskite solar cells have now become the most efficient of all multicrystalline thin film
photovoltaic technologies, reaching 25.2% in 2019. This outstanding figure of merit has only …