Carrier‐selective contacts using metal compounds for crystalline silicon solar cells

J Ibarra Michel, J Dréon, M Boccard… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar cells rely on the efficient generation of electrons and holes and the subsequent
collection of these photoexcited charge carriers at spatially separated electrodes. High wafer …

Dopant‐free passivating contacts for crystalline silicon solar cells: Progress and prospects

Y Wang, ST Zhang, L Li, X Yang, L Lu, D Li - EcoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of the contact scheme has driven the technology revolution of crystalline
silicon (c‐Si) solar cells. The state‐of‐the‐art high‐efficiency c‐Si solar cells such as silicon …

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 …

Atomic layer deposition of vanadium oxide as hole‐selective contact for crystalline silicon solar cells

X Yang, H Xu, W Liu, Q Bi, L Xu, J Kang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High carrier recombination loss at the contact regions has become the dominant factor
limiting the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells. Dopant …

Superior performance of V2O5 as hole selective contact over other transition metal oxides in silicon heterojunction solar cells

O Almora, LG Gerling, C Voz, R Alcubilla… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) have recently been proved to efficiently serve as hole-
selective contacts in crystalline silicon (c-Si) heterojunction solar cells. In the present work …

Achieving 23.83% conversion efficiency in silicon heterojunction solar cell with ultra‐thin MoOx hole collector layer via tailoring (i)a‐Si:H/MoOx interface

L Cao, P Procel, A Alcañiz, J Yan… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thin films of transition metal oxides such as molybdenum oxide (MoOx) are attractive for
application in silicon heterojunction solar cells for their potential to yield large short‐circuit …

Dopant‐free and carrier‐selective heterocontacts for silicon solar cells: recent advances and perspectives

P Gao, Z Yang, J He, J Yu, P Liu, J Zhu, Z Ge… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
By combining the most successful heterojunctions (HJ) with interdigitated back contacts,
crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells (SCs) have recently demonstrated a record efficiency of …

V 2 O x-based hole-selective contacts for c-Si interdigitated back-contacted solar cells

G Masmitjà, LG Gerling, P Ortega… - Journal of materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last few years, transition metal oxide layers have been proposed as selective
contacts both for electrons and holes and successfully applied to silicon solar cells …

Mitigating plasmonic absorption losses at rear electrodes in high‐efficiency silicon solar cells using dopant‐free contact stacks

S Zhong, J Dreon, Q Jeangros, E Aydin… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although charge‐carrier selectivity in conventional crystalline silicon (c‐Si) solar cells is
usually realized by doping Si, the presence of dopants imposes inherent performance …

Stable MoOX‐Based Heterocontacts for p‐Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Achieving 20% Efficiency

S Cao, J Li, J Zhang, Y Lin, L Lu, J Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells based on hole‐selective MoOX contacts provide
obvious merits in terms of the decent passivation and carrier selectivity but face the …