Passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells

TG Allen, J Bullock, X Yang, A Javey, S De Wolf - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
The global photovoltaic (PV) market is dominated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) based
technologies with heavily doped, directly metallized contacts. Recombination of photo …

Molybdenum oxides–from fundamentals to functionality

IA De Castro, RS Datta, JZ Ou… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The properties and applications of molybdenum oxides are reviewed in depth. Molybdenum
is found in various oxide stoichiometries, which have been employed for different high‐value …

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 …

Efficient silicon solar cells with dopant-free asymmetric heterocontacts

J Bullock, M Hettick, J Geissbühler, AJ Ong, T Allen… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
A salient characteristic of solar cells is their ability to subject photo-generated electrons and
holes to pathways of asymmetrical conductivity—'assisting'them towards their respective …

22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

J Geissbühler, J Werner, S Martin de Nicolas… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Substituting the doped amorphous silicon films at the front of silicon heterojunction solar
cells with wide-bandgap transition metal oxides can mitigate parasitic light absorption …

Integrating a Silicon Solar Cell with a Triboelectric Nanogenerator via a Mutual Electrode for Harvesting Energy from Sunlight and Raindrops

Y Liu, N Sun, J Liu, Z Wen, X Sun, ST Lee, B Sun - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Solar cells, as promising devices for converting light into electricity, have a dramatically
reduced performance on rainy days. Here, an energy harvesting structure that integrates a …

Green electrodeposition synthesis of NiFe-LDH/MoOx/BiVO4 for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

B Kang, MB Hussain, X Cheng, C Peng… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a facile green synthetic protocol for nanoporous NiFe-LDH/MoO x/BiVO 4 had been
established via an electrochemical deposition method for enhanced photoelectrochemical …

High efficiency hybrid PEDOT: PSS/nanostructured silicon Schottky junction solar cells by doping-free rear contact

Y Zhang, W Cui, Y Zhu, F Zu, L Liao, ST Lee… - Energy & Environmental …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A high doping technique has been widely used for record-efficiency crystalline silicon (Si)
solar cells to minimize the series resistance losses and to form a back surface field …

Silicon nanowire/polymer hybrid solar cell-supercapacitor: a self-charging power unit with a total efficiency of 10.5%

R Liu, J Wang, T Sun, M Wang, C Wu, H Zou… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
An integrated self-charging power unit, combining a hybrid silicon nanowire/polymer
heterojunction solar cell with a polypyrrole-based supercapacitor, has been demonstrated to …

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 …