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 …

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 …

Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell with Cell Area >1 cm2

J Werner, CH Weng, A Walter, L Fesquet… - The journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Monolithic perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells hold great promise for further
performance improvement of well-established silicon photovoltaics; however, monolithic …

22.5% efficient silicon heterojunction solar cell with molybdenum oxide hole collector

J Geissbühler, J Werner, S Martin de Nicolas… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Substituting the doped amorphous silicon films at the front of silicon heterojunction solar
cells with wide-bandgap transition metal oxides can mitigate parasitic light absorption …

Dielectric surface passivation for silicon solar cells: A review

RS Bonilla, B Hoex, P Hamer… - physica status solidi …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon wafer solar cells continue to be the leading photovoltaic technology, and in many
places are now providing a substantial portion of electricity generation. Further adoption of …

High-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells: A review

S De Wolf, A Descoeudres, ZC Holman, C Ballif - green, 2012 - degruyter.com
Silicon heterojunction solar cells consist of thin amorphous silicon layers deposited on
crystalline silicon wafers. This design enables energy conversion efficiencies above 20% at …

Silicon heterojunction solar cells: Recent technological development and practical aspects-from lab to industry

J Haschke, O Dupré, M Boccard, C Ballif - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2018 - Elsevier
We review the recent progress of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. Recently, a new
efficiency world record for silicon solar cells of 26.7% has been set by Kaneka Corp. using …

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact

C Battaglia, SM De Nicolas, S De Wolf, X Yin… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We explore substoichiometric molybdenum trioxide (MoO x, x< 3) as a dopant-free, hole-
selective contact for silicon solar cells. Using an intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon …

Current losses at the front of silicon heterojunction solar cells

ZC Holman, A Descoeudres, L Barraud… - IEEE journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current losses due to parasitic absorption in the indium tin oxide (ITO) and amorphous
silicon (a-Si: H) layers at the front of silicon heterojunction solar cells are isolated and …

25.11% efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cell with low deposition rate intrinsic amorphous silicon buffer layers

X Ru, M Qu, J Wang, T Ruan, M Yang, F Peng… - Solar energy materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here we report a certified efficiency of up to 25.11% for silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar
cells on a full size n-type M2 monocrystalline-silicon (c-Si) wafer (total area, 244.5 cm 2). An …