High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: materials, devices and applications

Y Liu, Y Li, Y Wu, G Yang, L Mazzarella… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge
of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently …

[HTML][HTML] Current status and challenges for hole-selective poly-silicon based passivating contacts

R Basnet, D Yan, D Kang, MM Shehata… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Doped polysilicon (poly-Si) passivating contacts have emerged as a key technology for the
next generation of silicon solar cells in mass production, owing to their excellent …

Polysilicon passivated junctions: The next technology for silicon solar cells?

D Yan, A Cuevas, JI Michel, C Zhang, Y Wan, X Zhang… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the maturity of crystalline silicon photovoltaics (c-Si PV), the last 6 years have seen
a string of efficiency improvements, most of which are centered around reducing the losses …

Mitigating parasitic absorption in Poly-Si contacts for TOPCon solar cells: A comprehensive review

S Deng, Y Cai, U Roemer, FJ Ma, F Rougieux… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Owing to their rapidly rising market share, TOPCon (poly-Si/SiO x passivating contact or
POLO contact) solar cells, which are projected to surpass PERC as the dominant solar cell …

Silicon solar cells with passivating contacts: Classification and performance

D Yan, A Cuevas, J Stuckelberger… - Progress in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2014 marks the point when silicon solar cells surpassed the 25% efficiency mark.
Since then, all devices exceeding this mark, both small and large area, with contacts on both …

Recent advancements in poly-Si/SiO x passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon solar cells: technology review and perspectives

J Zhou, X Su, Q Huang, B Zhang, J Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As photovoltaics (PVs) made out of crystalline silicon (c-Si) have become more
commonplace, the past decade has witnessed leaps and bounds in performance advances …

Design and development of front and back contact solar cells with selective poly-Si passivating contact on the front and local Al contact on the rear

P Padhamnath, WJ Choi, G De Luna, JD Arcebal… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract We present 22.5% efficient large area (M2), n-type rear junction biPoly™ solar cells
featuring selective poly-Si based passivation on the front and full area poly-Si on the rear …

Design, development and analysis of large-area industrial silicon solar cells featuring a full area polysilicon based passivating contact on the rear and selective …

P Padhamnath, WJ Choi, G De Luna, JD Arcebal… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present SERIS'biPoly™ technology platform on large-area (M2), n-type rear-junction
silicon solar cells featuring selective poly-Si/SiO x based passivated contacts on the front …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the PN junction impedance of crystalline silicon solar cells across varied illumination and temperature conditions

DA van Nijen, S Naoom, M Muttillo, P Procel… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2025 - Elsevier
The impedance of solar cells can be leveraged for a variety of innovative applications.
However, for the continued advancement of such applications, it is crucial to understand …

[PDF][PDF] Novel schemes of p+ poly-Si hydrogenation implemented in industrial 6 bifacial front-and-rear passivating contacts solar cells

MK Stodolny, J Anker, CJJ Tool, M Koppes… - 35th European …, 2018 - researchgate.net
In this paper we present our latest developments in bifacial 6” cells featuring polysilicon
carrier-selective passivating contacts which can be seen as an upgrade to bifacial cell …