Unveiling and Balancing the Passivation‐Transport Trade‐Off in Perovskite Solar Cells with Double‐Side Patterned Insulator Contacts

K Mao, F Cai, Z Zhu, H Meng, T Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Including an ultrathin insulator interlayer at the perovskite/charge transport interface is a
critical strategy for suppressing surface recombination in state‐of‐the‐art perovskite solar …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells with electron selective TiOx contact

X Yang, P Zheng, Q Bi, K Weber - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2016 - Elsevier
Silicon solar cells featuring carrier selective contacts have been demonstrated to reach ultra-
high conversion efficiency. In this work, the electron-selective contact characteristics of …

Emerging II-VI wide bandgap semiconductor device technologies

A Kuddus, SK Mostaque, S Mouri, J Hossain - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The demand for advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices has driven significant
research and development efforts toward exploring emerging semiconductor materials with …

Ultra-thin atomic layer deposited aluminium oxide tunnel layer passivated hole-selective contacts for silicon solar cells

Z Xin, ZP Ling, P Wang, J Ge, C Ke, KB Choi… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we use ultra-thin thickness-controllable spatial atomic layer deposited (ALD)
aluminium oxide (AlO x) tunnel layers, which contain high negative fixed charges (Q f) …

Improved V2OX Passivating Contact for p‐Type Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Oxygen Vacancy Modulation with a SiOX Tunnel Layer

G Du, L Li, X Yang, X Zhou, Z Su… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal oxide (TMO) thin films featuring tunable work function, high transmittance,
and simple fabrication process are expected to serve as carrier‐selective transport layers for …

Structural Properties of Al–O Monolayers in SiO2 on Silicon and the Maximization of Their Negative Fixed Charge Density

D Hiller, J Göttlicher, R Steininger… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Al2O3 on Si is known to form an ultrathin interfacial SiO2 during deposition and subsequent
annealing, which creates a negative fixed charge (Q fix) that enables field-effect passivation …

Understanding surface treatment and ALD AlOx thickness induced surface passivation quality of c-Si Cz wafers

G Kaur, N Dwivedi, X Zheng, B Liao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the passivation quality of crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafers, when passivated by
atomic layer deposited aluminum oxide (ALD AlO x), is investigated. Specifically, we …

Passivation of aluminium–n+ silicon contacts for solar cells by ultrathin Al2O3 and SiO2 dielectric layers

J Bullock, D Yan, A Cuevas - physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ultra‐thin thermally grown SiO2 and atomic‐layer‐deposited (ALD) Al2O3 films are trialled
as passivating dielectrics for metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) type contacts on top of …

Engineering aluminum oxide/polysilicon hole selective passivated contacts for high efficiency solar cells

G Kaur, Z Xin, R Sridharan, A Danner… - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tunnel layer passivated contact technology is already highly efficient in case of selective
electron extraction but not as efficient in case of selective hole extraction. Thus far, SiO x/p+ …

[HTML][HTML] Oxide-nitride nanolayer stacks for enhanced passivation of p-type surfaces in silicon solar cells

X Niu, A Soeriyadi, G He, S McNab… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2025 - Elsevier
In the quest for ultra-high-efficiency silicon solar cells, optimising surface passivation has
emerged as a critical pathway to minimise losses and enhance device performance. Recent …