Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells consist of thin amorphous silicon layers deposited on
crystalline silicon wafers. This design enables energy conversion efficiencies above 20% at …

The current losses due to parasitic absorption in the indium tin oxide (ITO) and amorphous
silicon (a-Si: H) layers at the front of silicon heterojunction solar cells are isolated and …

Thin Al 2 O 3 films with a thickness of 7–30 nm synthesized by plasma-assisted atomic layer
deposition (ALD) were used for surface passivation of crystalline silicon (c-Si) of different …

Doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) films of only a few nanometer thin find
application in a-Si: H/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. Although such films may …

The performance of many silicon devices is limited by electronic recombination losses at the
crystalline silicon (c-Si) surface. A proper surface passivation scheme is needed to allow …

Intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon films can yield outstanding electronic surface
passivation of crystalline silicon wafers. In this letter the authors confirm that this is strongly …

We measure surface recombination velocities (SRVs) below 10 cm/s on p‐type crystalline
silicon wafers passivated by atomic–layer–deposited (ALD) aluminium oxide (Al2O3) films of …

The device physics of commercially dominant diffused‐junction silicon solar cells is well
understood, allowing sophisticated optimization of this class of devices. Recently, so‐called …

The electronic properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H) relax following
stretched exponentials. This phenomenon was explained in the past by dispersive hydrogen …