Monolithic perovskite/Si tandem solar cells: pathways to over 30% efficiency

H Shen, D Walter, Y Wu, KC Fong… - Advanced energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The article commences with a review focusing on three critical aspects of the perovskite/Si
tandem technology: the evolution of efficiencies to date, comparisons of Si subcell choices …

Review on metallization approaches for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells

Y Zeng, CW Peng, W Hong, S Wang, C Yu… - Transactions of Tianjin …, 2022 - Springer
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) heterojunction (HJT) solar cells are one of the promising
technologies for next-generation industrial high-efficiency silicon solar cells, and many …

Superacid-treated silicon surfaces: Extending the limit of carrier lifetime for photovoltaic applications

NE Grant, T Niewelt, NR Wilson… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Minimizing carrier recombination at interfaces is of extreme importance in the development
of high-efficiency photovoltaic devices and for bulk material characterization. Here, we …

Corrugation enabled asymmetrically ultrastretchable (95%) monocrystalline silicon solar cells with high efficiency (19%)

N El‐Atab, N Qaiser, R Bahabry… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Stretchable solar cells are of growing interest due their key role in realizing many
applications such as wearables and biomedical devices. Ultrastretchability, high energy …

Ultraflexible corrugated monocrystalline silicon solar cells with high efficiency (19%), improved thermal performance, and reliability using low-cost laser patterning

N El-Atab, W Babatain, R Bahabry… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Flexible solar cells have received growing attention recently because of their ever-
increasing range of applications. Here, the development of ultraflexible, lightweight, and …

[HTML][HTML] Superacid-derived surface passivation for measurement of ultra-long lifetimes in silicon photovoltaic materials

AI Pointon, NE Grant, EC Wheeler-Jones… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate measurements of bulk minority carrier lifetime are essential in order to determine
the true limit of silicon's performance and to improve solar cell production processes. The …

Efficient light harvesting in hybrid quantum dot–interdigitated back contact solar cells via resonant energy transfer and luminescent downshifting

C Krishnan, T Mercier, T Rahman, G Piana, M Brossard… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, we propose a hybrid quantum dot (QD)/solar cell configuration to improve
performance of interdigitated back contact (IBC) silicon solar cells, resulting in 39.5 …

Impact of ion implantation and annealing parameters on bifacial PERC and PERT solar cell performance

A Siddiqui, G Bektaş, H Nasser, R Turan… - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Passivated Emitter and Rear Contact (PERC) and Passivated Emitter Rear Totally
Diffused (PERT) solar cell designs are now a market reality. In the production of these cells …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the carrier lifetime and switching speed in Si-based mm-wave photomodulators

IR Hooper, E Khorani, X Romain, LE Barr… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For a diverse range of semiconductor devices, the charge carrier lifetime is an essential
characteristic. However, the carrier lifetime is difficult to control, as it is usually determined by …

Kinetics of bulk lifetime degradation in float‐zone silicon: fast activation and annihilation of grown‐in defects and the role of hydrogen versus light

D Hiller, VP Markevich, JAT de Guzman… - … status solidi (a), 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Float‐zone (FZ) silicon often has grown‐in defects that are thermally activated in a broad
temperature window (≈ 300–800° C). These defects cause efficient electron‐hole pair …