[HTML][HTML] Design considerations for multi-terawatt scale manufacturing of existing and future photovoltaic technologies: challenges and opportunities related to silver …

Y Zhang, M Kim, L Wang, P Verlinden… - Energy & Environmental …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
To significantly impact climate change, the annual photovoltaic (PV) module production rate
must dramatically increase from∼ 135 gigawatts (GW) in 2020 to∼ 3 terawatts (TW) around …

Toward efficiency limits of crystalline silicon solar cells: recent progress in high‐efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Z Sun, X Chen, Y He, J Li, J Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photovoltaic (PV) technology is ready to become one of the main energy sources of, and
contributers to, carbon neutrality by the mid‐21st century. In 2020, a total of 135 GW of PV …

[HTML][HTML] Nano-optical designs for high-efficiency monolithic perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells

P Tockhorn, J Sutter, A Cruz, P Wagner, K Jäger… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells offer the possibility of overcoming the power
conversion efficiency limit of conventional silicon solar cells. Various textured tandem …

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 …

Hybrid perovskite films approaching the radiative limit with over 90% photoluminescence quantum efficiency

IL Braly, DW DeQuilettes, LM Pazos-Outón, S Burke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Reducing non-radiative recombination in semiconducting materials is a prerequisite for
achieving the highest performance in light-emitting and photovoltaic applications. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Electron–phonon physics from first principles using the EPW code

H Lee, S Poncé, K Bushick, S Hajinazar… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
EPW is an open-source software for ab initio calculations of electron–phonon interactions
and related materials properties. The code combines density functional perturbation theory …

Cerium and ytterbium codoped halide perovskite quantum dots: a novel and efficient downconverter for improving the performance of silicon solar cells

D Zhou, D Liu, G Pan, X Chen, D Li, W Xu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum cutting can realize the emission of multiple near‐infrared photons for each
ultraviolet/visible photon absorbed, and has potential to significantly improve the …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Organometallic halide perovskites: sharp optical absorption edge and its relation to photovoltaic performance

S De Wolf, J Holovsky, SJ Moon, P Loper… - The journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Solar cells based on organometallic halide perovskite absorber layers are emerging as a
high-performance photovoltaic technology. Using highly sensitive photothermal deflection …

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 …