Silicon solar cells: toward the efficiency limits

LC Andreani, A Bozzola, P Kowalczewski… - … in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Photovoltaic (PV) conversion of solar energy starts to give an appreciable contribution to
power generation in many countries, with more than 90% of the global PV market relying on …

Silicon solar cells reaching the efficiency limits: from simple to complex modelling

P Kowalczewski, L Redorici, A Bozzola… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerical modelling is pivotal in the development of high efficiency solar cells. In this
contribution we present different approaches to model the solar cell performance: the diode …

General analytical solution to minority-carrier transport in uniformly-doped light-trapping Si solar cells

L Abenante - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
A general analytical solution to one-dimensional minority-carrier transport under illumination
in uniformly doped light-trapping (LT) Si solar cells in low-level injection is presented, which …

Optical Modeling of Ultrathin Silicon Solar Cells with PC1D

L Abenante - physica status solidi c, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We show that the optical diffusion model embedded in the numerical simulation program
PC1D systematically underestimates light‐generated currents in thin textured Si solar cells …